Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- foreign enterprise; company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong; abbr. for 外資企業|外资企业
- a (married) couple; husband and wife; CL:對|对[dui4]
- to hate; to regret
- facial features; appearence; physiognomy
- lies; wild talk; to tell lies; to talk nonsense; fantasy (literature)
- nature; disposition; temperament; character; CL:個|个[ge4]
- fabulous; superb; excellent
- good-natured
- talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- (idiom) very few
- to write without lifting one's pen from the paper; (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
- scale; scope; extent
- to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [su4]
- steel
- to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount
- course of events; process
- not at all surprising (idiom)
- surname Qi; also used in place names
- 区 qū: 区 qu1: area; region; district; small; distinguish; CL:個|个[ge4]区 ōu: 区 Ou1: surname Ou
- guard at gate; sentry
- 前门 Qián mén: 前门 Qian2 men2: Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2前门 qián mén: 前门 qian2 men2: front door; main entrance; honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter)
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins
- unalterable; certainly; definitely
- plaintive; mournful; miserable
- material benefit; benefit in kind; (social) welfare
- 场 cháng: 场 chang2: threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout场 chǎng: 场 chang3: large place used for a specific purpose; stage; scene (of a play); classifier for sporting or recreational activities; classifier for number of exams
- to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately
- (sitting) opposite; across (the street); directly in front; to be face to face
- to look attentively at; to closely watch; to gaze at
- hush money
- staff; personnel; employee
- motionless; unable to move
- I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint
- cold and detached towards sb; lack of regard; indifference; neglect
- money; wealth; riches; property; valuables
- slowly; unhurriedly; little by little
- fortunately; luckily