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三国演义 Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 9

罗贯中《三国演义》

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Author: Luó GuànZhōng

Translator: Moss Roberts

Chapter 9



漢朝 / 汉朝 Hàn Cháo


董卓 Dǒng Zhuó

仲穎 Zhòng Yǐng


Advisor of 董卓 Dǒng Zhuó

李儒 Lǐ Rú


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


Defected from 袁绍 Yuán Shào and joined 公孙瓒 GōngSūn Zàn because he believes in 仁义 rényì benevolence and righteousness

赵云 Zhào Yún

子龍 Zi Lóng

五虎將


Oldest son of 孙坚 Sūn Jiān

孙策 Sūn Cè

伯符 Bó Fú


王允 Wáng Yǔn

子师 Zi Shī


Fictional

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



Themes


Ignoring signs

Victor writer history


Literary Allusions


“千里草,何青青!日卜,不得生!”

草千里 = 董

卜日十 =

董卓 Dǒng Zhuó


Vocabulary


卜 bǔ to divine; to forecast or estimate; (of a place to live etc) to choose; (Chinese surname)

卜 bo 萝卜




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