Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- lit. too weak to stand up to the wind (idiom); fig. extremely delicate; fragile
- to become devaluated; to devaluate; to depreciate
- armed forces
- unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom)
- to pretend; to feign; to disguise oneself
- Central, Hong Kong Island
- sandbag; punching bag (trad. filled with sand); sand dune; footbag; hacky sack
- (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
- last month
- Jinhua, prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- to open the back door; fig. under the counter; to do a secret or dishonest deal; to let sth in by the back door
- not an exaggeration; not excessive; not wide of the mark
- cross-stitch (embroidery)
- to have many advantages and no disadvantages
- second lieutenant (army rank)
- branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
- coach; bus; passenger train
- chilling cold; cold and threatening
- (interj. of admiration or of disgust); to click one's tongue; to attempt to (find an opportunity to) speak
- Oh! (exclamation of dismay etc); used in 呦呦[you1 you1]
- (of rival gangs or armed factions etc) to engage in internecine violence; to have an open fight; to clash on the streets; to have a shootout
- concubine; mistress; (dialect) woman
- to oppress the people; to act tyrannically
- 阿拉 ā lā: 阿拉 A1 la1: Allah (Arabic name of God)阿拉 ā lā: 阿拉 a1 la1: (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
- (idiom) in public; in front of everyone; openly (typically preceded by 在[zai4] and followed by 之下[zhi1 xia4])
- to get out of the way
- T-shaped
- 丨 gǔn: 丨 gun3: radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)丨 shù: 丨 shu4: vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
- in formation (military)