Vocabulary: 地心游记
- to climb (of climbing plants); to creep; to cling on to; fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful); social climbing
- hanging screen; curtain over shop door (for privacy and serving as advertisement)
- (lit. and fig.) shadow; CL:道[dao4]
- sand and dust storm
- whirlwind; tornado
- roundabout route; circuitous; tortuous; to outflank; indirect; roundabout
- to advance; forward motion
- to collide; collision
- very slight sound; rustling (onom.); to stream down (of tears); luxuriant growth (of vegetation)
- to throb; to pulse; to bounce; to jiggle; to jump about
- stone; rock
- to splash; to spatter
- (idiom) thank goodness
- (sitting) opposite; across (the street); directly in front; to be face to face
- (idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis
- lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom); fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
- corpse; dead body
- well-known; famous
- meteor; shooting star; meteor hammer (abbr. for 流星錘|流星锤[liu2 xing1 chui2])
- Z-shaped; zigzag
- to climb
- remainder; surplus
- expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure
- almost; nearly; close to
- beset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty
- more than one would wish; somewhat; a bit too (old, contrived, distracting etc)
- thin; rarefied
- to breathe
- lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom); fig. pitch dark; to black out; disorderly; troubled times
- to take shelter from the wind; to lie low; to stay out of trouble
- midnight
- (of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course; (fig.) to function; to be in operation; (of a train service etc) to operate; to run; (of a computer) to run
- lowest point; nadir; minimum level
- middle finger
- storm; violent commotion; fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful
- a couch; a narrow bed
- shelter; screen; cover; protection