Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to fight hand to hand
- taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from
- desire; longing; appetite; craving
- to reply; to answer
- to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- to give it a try
- to shrink back; to cower
- a few; a little; a bit
- as for; when it comes to
- (idiom) wordless; silent; taciturn; without speaking
- still (remaining); to remain (the same); yet
- in (some place); to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc); to find oneself in; placed in; surrounded by
- to arrange; to plan; to set up; arrangements; plans
- to smash to pieces; to shatter
- difference; distinction; disparity
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- to injure; to devastate; to slaughter
- what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]
- behind the scenes
- casualty; victim; those injured and wounded
- to treat unjustly; an injustice
- Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi; Venus
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]); brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy); (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork; (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character; (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business; (literary) to write (with a brush or pen)
- fountain pen; CL:支[zhi1]
- ink; CL:瓶[ping2]
- as it turns out; by lucky coincidence; (of number, time, size etc) just right
- careless; sloppy; negligent; skimpy
- unable to tolerate; intolerant; unable to bear sth
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- to begin to suspect; to grow suspicious
- 熬 áo: 熬 ao2: to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure熬 āo: 熬 ao1: to simmer; to boil slowly
- a place set up to serve a specific function (train station, bus stop, toll plaza, bike rental station, meteorological station etc); (Internet) site (website, FTP site etc)
- two-day weekend
- rocks; stones; rubble; riprap
- height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to push aside; to part; to brush away