Vocabulary: 永夜君王
- 本色 běn shǎi: 本色 ben3 shai3: natural color本色 běn sè: 本色 ben3 se4: inherent qualities; natural qualities; distinctive character; true qualities
- rust
- 围城 Wéi chéng: 围城 Wei2 cheng2: Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書|钱钟书[Qian2 Zhong1 shu1], filmed as a TV serial围城 wéi chéng: 围城 wei2 cheng2: siege; besieged city
- military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose"); flag signal; semaphore
- 杆 gān: 杆 gan1: pole; CL:條|条[tiao2],根[gen1]杆 gǎn: 杆 gan3: stick; pole; lever; classifier for long objects such as guns
- brown bear
- to stand still without advancing (idiom); to hesitate and hold back
- to forgive
- to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
- to stay calm; to keep one's composure
- office building; CL:座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
- to rebuild (house or road); to overhaul
- wretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
- ruler
- the sun shines brightly (idiom)
- lieutenant general; vice admiral; air marshal
- to defend; to uphold; to safeguard
- maker
- to love and respect; love and respect
- (bound form) to clasp under the arm; (bound form) to coerce; (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc); Taiwan pr. [xia2]
- to perform an in-depth investigation
- pigtail; (fig.) a shortcoming or evidence of wrongdoing that can be seized upon by others
- the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales
- minor illness; indisposition
- irrefutable evidence
- certain; confident (of some outcome); calm and unhurried
- parlor
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush
- (idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds
- southwest