Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch
- whereabouts; to drop; to fall
- 这 zhè: 这 zhe4: (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)这 zhèi: 这 zhei4: (coll.) this
- to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking
- to explode; spontaneous detonation; self-detonation; suicide bombing; to disclose private matters about oneself
- to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- confluence; to converge; to join; to fuse; fusion
- to guard
- quicksand; (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava
- 火 Hǔo: 火 Huo3: surname Huo火 hǔo: 火 huo3: fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86
- to stir restlessly; to be agitated; commotion; agitation
- hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- to come (formal); before; previously
- final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- eight-trigram battle array; (fig.) mystifying tactics
- to lose the way; lost; labyrinth; labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
- 新 Xīn: 新 Xin1: abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin新 xīn: 新 xin1: new; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- to surround; to encircle; to hem in
- fork in the road
- to be familiar with; to know well
- again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- to break out; to erupt; to explode; to burst out
- golden; gold (color)
- (coll.) popular young actress
- chip; fragment; splinter; tatter
- an exit; CL:個|个[ge4]; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port
- flight of steps; (fig.) stepping stone; way to reach the goal of
- 大门 Dà mén: 大门 Da4 men2: the Doors, US rock band大门 dà mén: 大门 da4 men2: entrance; door; gate; large and influential family