Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins
- (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man
- unmanned; uninhabited
- to grow all over
- weeds
- almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- (detectable) movement; (sign of) activity; movement and stillness
- to cry; to weep
- tonight
- torch; CL:把[ba3]
- bonfire; to open fire
- to take out; to extract
- to ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion; flaming
- match (for lighting fire); CL:根[gen1],盒[he2]
- summit; peak
- to stretch; to extend
- bones of the dead
- skin and flesh; the physical body; (fig.) the superficial layer; surface aspects
- crack; crevice; CL:道[dao4]
- to provide guidance; to lecture sb; to upbraid; a talking-to; a bitter lesson; CL:番[fan1],頓|顿[dun4]
- ax; hatchet; CL:柄[bing3]
- to drip; to trickle; to shed (tears)
- brass ring; door knocker
- to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate
- sound of gurgling water
- window; CL:扇[shan4]
- determined; unshakable
- to be frightened
- to grow; to grow up; to be brought up
- meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130
- complete; intact
- 扒 bā: 扒 ba1: to peel; to skin; to tear; to pull down; to cling to (sth on which one is climbing); to dig扒 pá: 扒 pa2: to rake up; to steal; to braise; to crawl
- to be precisely the same; to be no different
- warm
- 闪 shǎn: 闪 shan3: to dodge; to duck out of the way; to beat it; shaken (by a fall); to sprain; to pull a muscle; lightning; spark; a flash; to flash (across one's mind); to leave behind; (Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine闪 Shǎn: 闪 Shan3: surname Shan
- (of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die
- previous condition; original state