Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- have no way out; have no alternative; abbr. to 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4]
- else; other
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to check in (at a hotel etc); to move into (a house)
- day by day; more and more; increasingly; more and more with each passing day
- to enlarge; to amplify; to magnify
- to come down with; to be afflicted with (an illness)
- period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to discharge one's duties; conscientious
- must; to need to; to be sure to
- to find out; to discover
- robust; healthy; sturdy
- 巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
- to dry out; to extract water; dehydration; dehydrated; desiccation
- 面皮 miàn pí: 面皮 mian4 pi2: cheek; face; leather covering (for handbags etc)面皮 miàn pí: 面皮 mian4 pi2: dumpling skin; piecrust
- fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food)
- cruelty; torture
- to murder
- to kill in revenge
- suitable; fitting; appropriate
- the reason why
- on top of; at the summit
- where the wind and the waves are the fiercest; at the heart of the struggle
- to mistreat; to maltreat; to abuse; mistreatment; maltreatment
- to transport; to carry
- rumor; gossip; to spread rumors
- composition; ingredient; element; component; one's social status
- to interrogate; to cross-examine; to inquire
- Mara (the demon of temptation)
- miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy
- to grieve; to be broken-hearted; to feel deeply hurt
- to conceal from; to keep (sb) in the dark
- to panic; to be alarmed
- in uproar; commotion; causing a storm of protest; tumultuous
- (idiom) obscure; dubious; shady
- (used after a verb) endlessly; incessantly
- (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest; (bound form) bedroom; (bound form) imperial tomb; (literary) to stop; to cease
- symptom (of an illness)
- target; goal; objective; CL:個|个[ge4]