Vocabulary: 大师的盛宴
- outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems; saying one thing but meaning sth different
- 术 zhú: 术 zhu2: various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea术 shù: 术 shu4: method; technique
- manuscript copy of a book (before the printing press)
- to expel; to evict; to drive out
- lamentable
- jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
- (idiom) one's forte
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- haze
- to disperse
- to purify
- (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number; (computing) code; (clothing) size; yard (unit of length); (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references); (coll.) to pile up; to stack; classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- clean; to clean
- kernel; granule; granulated (sugar, chemical product)
- remainder; filtered out residue; sediment; waste product; debris; detritus; rubbish
- to contain in great quantities; rich in
- deoxyribose
- (do sth) in passing; incidentally (while doing sth else)
- requirement; to require; (economics) demand
- birds and animals; creature; beast (brutal person)
- base; mean; despicable
- outsider; foreigner; stranger
- (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound
- chains; shackles
- 刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
- brutal; vicious; ruthless
- hooligan; rogue; a good-for-nothing
- to fear; to dread; foreboding
- polarization
- good-natured