Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to stand out; outstanding
- to compete; to take part in a competition
- great kindness; magnificent hospitality
- what remains unseen is deemed to be clean; what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom)
- ant nest
- finals (of a competition)
- (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
- to get engaged
- to break off an engagement
- to encounter (sth unpleasant)
- cramp; charley horse; to pull a tendon
- lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom); fig. to try to punch above one's weight
- rival in love
- lit. a banquet with no empty seats; full house; capacity crowd; standing room only
- hissing sound; to hiss (as a sign of displeasure)
- racetrack; field (for athletics competition)
- (law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement; (sports) to referee; (sports) umpire; referee; judge
- to turn on the water; to let water out; (sports) to throw a game
- to practice fraud; to cheat; to engage in corrupt practices
- ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
- to become known far and wide (idiom); famous
- (idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
- interlude; to cross the stage; to do sth as a mere formality; to go through the motions
- to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later; to decide behind closed doors; all cut and dried
- complex; complicated; many and varied
- as the arm moves the finger (idiom); freely and effortlessly; to have perfect command of