Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- good people; ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class)
- the second time; second; number two
- 室 shì: 室 shi4: room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy室 Shì: 室 Shi4: surname Shi
- to recognize; to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it; to know
- mysterious; profound; abstruse
- first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally
- to submerge; to infiltrate; to steal into
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- excuse; pretext; entreaties; arguments
- captain; team leader; CL:個|个[ge4]
- power; might; prestige
- criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察[xing2 shi4 jing3 cha2])
- careless; negligent; sloppy; not serious
- to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth
- idiot; fool
- to beat a drum; to play a drum; (fig.) to feel nervous
- lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus
- to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; sth that one relies on
- at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice
- profound; significant; meaningful
- 段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
- to attach importance to sth; to value
- to send (on a mission); to dispatch
- necessity
- lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others
- whole; entirety; overall; whole; general; on the whole; overall
- as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc
- a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5]
- to think over; to consider; consideration
- everyday clothes; informal dress; civilian clothes
- to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across
- just in case; if by any chance; contingency
- (idiom) (of a pocket, pouch etc) full and bulging
- weather
- sleeve
- to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease
- faithful
- bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles; fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")