Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to dig; to excavate; to scoop out
- 米 mǐ: 米 mi3: uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan米 Mǐ: 米 Mi3: surname Mi
- to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means; to try this, that and the other
- soul; spirit
- graveyard
- to start; to set in motion; to move; to march; to dig in (eating); to tuck in (eating)
- to search; to look for
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- on the one hand
- perfect
- to forge; to fake; to counterfeit
- to work; to be employed
- ambiguous; vague; careless; perfunctory
- the most important; of chief importance
- responsibility; duty; liability
- a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
- week; CL:個|个[ge4]; day of the week; Sunday
- to arrange an interview; an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
- commonly seen; common; to see sth frequently
- housing estate; community; neighborhood; (telecommunications) cell
- residence; dwelling; abode
- to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly)
- (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
- to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end
- continuously; persistently; incessantly
- desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect
- former site; old location
- to migrate; to move
- to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
- (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
- factory; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- science and technology
- to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce
- to harm; to jeopardize; to endanger; harmful effect; damage
- worker; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2]
- to eliminate; to remove; to exclude; to rule out