Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to beat a drum; to play a drum; (fig.) to feel nervous
- stammering; stuttering; not speaking fluently
- to make a mess; to mess with; to be wild; to sleep around; to jump into bed
- (idiom) take care of everything; handle everything
- cook; chef
- to learn by rote; to mechanically memorize
- to write at a tremendous speed
- meteorological or astronomical phenomenon (e.g. rainbow or eclipse)
- top of streets, bottom of alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
- (idiom) reluctant to speak about it; tight-lipped
- to fool; to hoodwink; to dupe
- distant relatives
- evening; night
- living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life; vivid and realistic
- popular; hot; in vogue
- to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum; to encourage sth to get bigger; to add fuel to the fire
- leather shoes
- (bound form) jaw
- construction site
- authority; authoritativeness
- reputation; profile; familiarity in the public consciousness
- to offer advice; to make a suggestion
- to refuse to comment; same as 不置可否
- politics; government affairs
- regulations; rules; code of conduct; ordinances; statutes
- to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together
- to violate a taboo
- regime; political power
- to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere
- dishonest practices
- to go bankrupt; to become impoverished; bankruptcy
- bus stop; bus station
- (of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience; (dialect) taking a crap