Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to abdicate
- to care for; to show concern for; to think longingly (of one's country)
- to conceal one's identity; living incognito
- to go into hiding
- decree; order; will; intent
- exotic flower; (fig.) marvel; prodigy; (slang) weirdo; outlandish
- hard to distinguish real from imitation
- to swap places; to exchange roles
- rhetoric
- to paint; to whitewash; to decorate; plaster; fig. to gloss over; to cover up
- to sing the praises of; to extol; to eulogize
- benevolence; favor
- irrational; unreasonable
- bloodthirsty
- to protect; cover; shelter; hide or harbor
- divine right (of kings)
- unpleasant to the eye; objectionable
- vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage
- (a person's) back (usu. as sth one keeps straight); (fig.) backing; support
- to demote; to relegate; to degrade
- to immerse; to soak; to steep; gradually
- lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom); fig. a big scandal; an uproar; the talk of the town
- to annihilate; to exterminate; extinction
- the secular world
- higher education
- stain; taint
- punitive expedition to the north
- 阮 Ruǎn: 阮 Ruan3: surname Ruan; small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province阮 ruǎn: 阮 ruan3: ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
- the Chinese side (in an international venture)
- clinical depression
- convention; usual practice