Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- wind direction; the way the wind is blowing; fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones); how things are developing; course of events
- copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- to take the lead; to show initiative
- pencil sharpener (blade-only type)
- sputtering
- to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together; string of 1000 cash
- flag signals (for communicating between ships or army units); semaphore
- armor piercing shell
- to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear; to ignore deliberately
- (music) fingering; (TCM) manipulation of acupuncture needles; (keyboard) typing technique; (dance) hand movements; (painting) finger method
- to bend at the waist; to bow; (fig.) to bow to; to submit
- to grow without restraint; overflowing with; to happen unexpectedly
- separated; stare
- Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.)
- to stop up; to close up; hard to get to; out of the way; inaccessible; unenlightened; blocking
- to carry; to take along; to bring along; to hold (hands); also pr. [xi1]
- to gallop; to rush headlong
- square-shaped formation (military); phalanx; (math.) matrix
- a narrow street (lined with walls); to line the street
- kinetic energy
- battle formation
- to be in the way; to block the path
- energy consumption
- to encourage