Vocabulary: 大师的盛宴
- lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom); fig. easily solved
- (lit. and fig.) overnight
- Vietnam
- Cambodia
- California
- Arabian Sea
- Australia
- overwhelming majority
- midday; noon; noonday
- Berlin Wall
- might; formidable power
- to change into; to turn into; to become
- Israel
- Arab; Arabian; Arabian people
- butcher's knife; abattoir hatchet
- racial segregation; apartheid
- to rob; looting
- to counterfeit; to pass off a fake as genuine
- to file an income tax return; to declare dutiable goods (at customs)
- brick
- Wednesday
- to take shape; shaping; forming
- to throw away; to throw out
- Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)
- sugar; sweets; candy; CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]
- flabbergasted; astonished
- to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing sth; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)
- to smoke (tobacco)
- (loanword) champagne
- to execute by firing squad; to shoot dead; fig. to discard; to get rid of
- to ignite; to set on fire; aflame
- lung cancer
- focal length; focal distance
- capillary blood vessels
- to pull back; to shrink; to contract; (physiology) systole
- to get drunk
- the urge to smoke; tobacco addiction
- server (at a restaurant)
- mouthfeel; texture (of food)
- facing death; at death's door
- a matter for regret; sth that is a (great) pity
- rich; plentiful
- ice cream
- to have a taste of; to sample