Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to manage; to handle
- grumble
- to shrug one's shoulders
- to evade; to shirk
- can't make head or tail of
- inner; internal; intrinsic; innate
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
- crafty plots and machinations (idiom)
- to flow into; to converge (of river); (computing) to import (data)
- stability
- silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa
- actual proof; concrete evidence; empirical
- same principle
- lit. the whole nest came out (to fight us); a turnout in full force (of a gang of villains)
- (of troops) to depart for; to head for
- Egypt
- magnifying glass
- then; afterwards
- in the wind; facing the wind; downwind
- dip into water; to temper
- to feel perplexed
- to feel puzzled
- to court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave
- 眉目 méi mù: 眉目 mei2 mu4: general facial appearance; features; arrangement; sequence of ideas; logic (of writing); rough sketch or general idea of things眉目 méi mu: 眉目 mei2 mu5: progress; prospect of solution; sign of positive outcome
- fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
- to strike; wham!
- to make a surprise attack; to pounce on (an enemy)
- classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word
- to look for trouble
- you (used to a superior or between persons of the same generation); below the foot
- (literary) the people; living thing; creature
- for all eternity; throughout all ages; eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)