Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- swan; person with noble aspirations
- foundation; base; family estate
- to take care of; to raise money; to attend to (guests, customers etc)
- the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom); (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
- wedding; marriage; CL:門|门[men2],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to live like a prince (idiom)
- the bride's side (of a wedding); of the bride's party
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to carry on one's ancestral line
- both parents
- to halt; to stay; to be stationed (of troops, diplomats etc)
- ordinary people; the hoi polloi; commoner
- hearsay; gossip
- eyes brimming with tears of excitement (idiom); extremely moved
- building
- to hug each other
- spontaneous
- British Empire
- (lit.) leftover men; (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty; surviving members of an ethnic group
- restless; unsettled
- general office
- to get excited; passionate; aroused to passion; to fall in love; on heat (of animals)
- 讴歌 ōu gē: 讴歌 Ou1 ge1: Acura (Honda car model)讴歌 ōu gē: 讴歌 ou1 ge1: (literary) to celebrate in song; to eulogize
- to attend; to participate; present
- auction; CL:場|场[chang3]
- upper class
- faculty of memory; ability to remember
- third-rate; inferior
- to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price
- grace; graceful
- starting bid; starting price (at an auction)
- to increase a price
- three generations of a family; the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
- offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding; blue blood
- (idiom) to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
- wealth; riches