Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- ashen-faced
- 支吾 zhī wú: 支吾 zhi1 wu2: to resist; to deal with支吾 zhī wu: 支吾 zhi1 wu5: to respond evasively or vaguely; to elude; to stall
- swindler; a cheat
- unable to tell good from bad (idiom); undiscriminating
- eloquent; oratory; rhetoric
- old; aged
- to cut some meat; to cut off a piece of flesh; (fig.) (coll.) to sell at a loss
- lucrative job; cushy job
- (lit.) to enter through the back door; (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections; (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
- to go online; to put sth online; to reach a specific standard; to put into production; handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
- hardworking; assiduous
- trifling; trivial; tedious; inconsequential
- interpersonal relationship
- full powers; total authority; plenipotentiary powers
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect
- to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee)
- secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
- up to; no less than; as much as
- surreptitious; sneaky
- lit. small abacus; fig. selfish calculations; bean-counting
- meal cooked in a large pot; communal meal; (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
- to bring up; to train; to contribute to; achievements (usually of young people)
- to conduct oneself; to behave with integrity
- to authorize
- to subcontract
- batch; lot
- to win by a narrow margin
- to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn
- what is true and what is false; (to get to know) the real situation
- horsepower
- (of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed
- to expose; to unmask; to ferret out; to disclose; disclosure
- precarious as pile of eggs (idiom); ready to fall and break at any moment; in a dangerous state