罗贯中《三国演义》
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Author: Luó GuànZhōng
Translator: Moss Roberts
Chapter 8
漢朝 / 汉朝 Hàn Cháo
董卓 Dǒng Zhuó
仲穎 Zhòng Yǐng
袁绍 Yuán Shào
吕布 Lǚ Bù
奉先 Fèng Xiān
2 刘协 Liú Xié
伯和 Bó Hé
陈留王 Chén Liú Wáng
汉献帝 Hàn Xiàn Dì 9 years old
王允 Wáng Yǔn
子师 Zi Shī
Fictional adopted daughter of 王允 Wáng Yǔn
貂蝉 Diāo Chán
貂 diāo sable or marten (genus Martes)
蝉 chán cicada
One of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 吕布.
蜀漢 / 蜀汉 Shǔ Hàn
1 刘备 Liú Bèi
玄德 Xuán Dé
双股剑 shuāng gǔ jiàn
股 gǔ thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科; measure word for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; measure word for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; measure word for bands of people, gangs etc; measure word for sudden forceful actions
3 張飛 Zhāng Fēi
益德 Yì Dé
丈八蛇矛 zhàng bā shé máo ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺 in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
五虎將
2 關羽 Guān Yǔ
雲長 Yún Zhǎng
八十二斤青龙偃月刀 qīnglóng yǎn yuè
五虎將
曹魏 Cáo Wèi
曹操 Cáo Cāo
孟德 Mèng Dé
Discrepancy in Editions
王允 Wáng Yǔn: "The empire 天下 belongs to no one man 一人; but to all in the empire 天下人的天下."
Literary Allusions
湘水神 Xiāng Shuǐ Shén
洞庭湖 Dòngtíng Hú
宋玉《神女赋》Shén Nǚ Fù by Sòng Yù
Definitions
belvedere noun
a building, or architectural feature of a building, designed and situated to look out upon a pleasing scene
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