Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters; (used to transliterate foreign names); (used in Chinese women's names)
- in great abundance; numerous
- refugee camp
- to wait for a train or bus
- seat (at a banquet); to attend a banquet
- disadvantaged social groups (e.g. the handicapped); the economically and politically marginalized; the dispossessed
- overjoyed at unexpected good news (idiom)
- to get it straight; to start to understand things properly; enlightenment dawns
- to consider oneself as; to believe oneself to be
- lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise; you flatter me
- to assign (a task to different people); to allocate
- miscellaneous tasks; various chores
- lanes and alleys; neighborhood; lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families
- bitter; harsh; grim; ruthless; severe; cut-throat (competition)
- to accuse; to denounce; to make a complaint against; denunciation
- (idiom) to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
- male eagle; tercel
- (of troops) to march
- to go out; to go away (on a trip etc)
- to proclaim oneself (sth); to give oneself the title of; self-appointed; self-styled; to limit oneself to; to isolate oneself
- a scout; spy
- to clear; to empty
- phrase (grammar)
- to cower; to flinch; to quail; to recoil
- supernatural
- to suspect everyone; overly suspicious
- majestic; sublime
- theism (the belief in the existence of God)
- 散光 sǎn guāng: 散光 san3 guang1: astigmatism散光 sàn guāng: 散光 san4 guang1: to diffuse light
- fulcrum (for a lever)
- (physics) mechanics; (literary) to study hard