Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to leave home to make one's way in the world; to leave the life one knows to seek success
- barren; infertile; poor
- 旧教 Jìu jiào: 旧教 Jiu4 jiao4: the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教[Tian1 zhu3 jiao4], as opposed to Protestantism 新教[Xin1 jiao4]旧教 jìu jiào: 旧教 jiu4 jiao4: old teachings; wisdom from the past
- sect
- creed; doctrine; teachings
- Holy City
- banquet; dinner party; soiree
- 剪 Jiǎn: 剪 Jian3: surname Jian剪 jiǎn: 剪 jian3: (bound form) scissors or similar tool; to cut as with scissors; (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate; to edit (video, audio etc)
- 阿爸 ā bà: 阿爸 A1 ba4: Abba (Aramaic word father); by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel阿爸 ā bà: 阿爸 a1 ba4: (dialect) father
- outmoded; old-fashioned; inflexible
- see 東坡區|东坡区[Dong1 po1 Qu1]
- poor; impoverished
- to dilute
- chimney; stovepipe; smokestack
- crystal sugar; rock candy
- city dweller; townspeople
- sultry; sultriness; hot and stuffy; stifling hot
- amount of reduction; size of discount
- state of emergency
- (Tw) vending machine
- melancholy; moving and sad; sweet and piteous
- see 無可救藥|无可救药[wu2 ke3 jiu4 yao4]
- racial discrimination; racism
- having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom); extremely wealthy