Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- (idiom) from top to bottom; top-down
- diamond; also called 鑽石|钻石[zuan4 shi2]
- to donate blood
- (honorific) to accompany; to keep sb company
- a store room for books; fig. an erudite person; the Bibliotheca and Epitome of pseudo-Apollodorus
- to revamp; a face-lift; to retread (a tire); to refurbish (old clothes); newly emerging
- bookshelf; CL:個|个[ge4]
- fluorescent light
- ancient text; antique books
- to collect books; library collection
- old language; the Classics; Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose; Classical Chinese as a school subject
- to learn from history (idiom)
- book; booklet; classifier for books
- the final years (of a regime)
- (literary) student; scholar
- bus; abbr. for 公共汽車|公共汽车[gong1 gong4 qi4 che1]; car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc); abbr. for 公務用車|公务用车[gong1 wu4 yong4 che1]
- to write a letter (to the authorities); to present a petition
- Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
- Empress Dowager
- to hold a court audience; to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)
- (political) reform; revitalization; modernization
- to be unable to carry on even for a single day; to be in a desperate situation
- vitality; dynamism
- to finish apprenticeship; to graduate
- enormously proud of one's success (idiom); smug; complacent
- starving people
- to have three meals a day