Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- hare
- dialectal equivalent of 什麼|什么[shen2 me5]; also pr. [sha4]
- meal; to eat; classifier for meals
- to extinguish a fire; firefighting
- (the) very first
- broadcasting room
- everyone; influential family; great expert
- to get out of bed; to get up
- intensity and spread of a fire
- to pass on a story; to communicate a message
- device; tool; utensil; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- to correspond (by letter, email etc); to send or receive messages through telecommunications
- equipment; facilities; installations
- to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse
- in a great rush; in a flurry
- (coll.) wife
- a sea of flames
- to check; to make inventory
- number of people
- firefighting; fire control
- to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown
- 焦 Jiāo: 焦 Jiao1: surname Jiao焦 jiāo: 焦 jiao1: burnt; scorched; charred; worried; anxious; coke; joule (abbr. for 焦耳[jiao1 er3])
- firefighter; fireman
- to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom)
- to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- to raise (an issue); to propose; to put forward; to suggest; to post (on a website); to withdraw (cash)
- to sentence (to prison etc)
- indifferent; apathetic; cold
- 管 guǎn: 管 guan3: to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards管 Guǎn: 管 Guan3: surname Guan
- lit. heart of wolf and lungs of dog (idiom); cruel and unscrupulous
- life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me
- to notify; to inform; notice; notification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc)
- opportunity; opportune moment
- to report (malefactors to the police); to denounce
- (accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts; (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge
- hidden; covered; concealed
- 怔 zhēng: 怔 zheng1: (bound form) startled; terrified; panic-stricken怔 zhèng: 怔 zheng4: (dialect) to stare blankly; to be in a daze; Taiwan pr. [leng4]