Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- base; mean; despicable
- to take the blame (for sb else)
- elementary education
- Homer, poet of ancient Greece
- careless; reckless; casually; absent-mindedly; at will; at random; any old how
- classical literature
- Latin (language)
- Greek literature
- equally matched; about the same
- to agree; to consent; to approve
- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- pedant
- to stir oneself up; to raise one's spirits; to inspire
- living person
- to exist; to survive
- unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that
- to work hard; to look after
- reward; remuneration
- to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of
- first under heaven; number one in the country
- sincere; genuine; true
- to extend
- never (in the past); never did
- pride; arrogance; conceited; proud of sth
- tender and beautiful
- to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence; to expunge; to blot out; to suppress
- blood; (fig.) lifeblood
- 好事 hǎo shì: 好事 hao3 shi4: good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead好事 hào shì: 好事 hao4 shi4: to be meddlesome
- (of an author) anonymous
- to go downstairs
- silly; stupid