Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- for now; for the time being; temporarily
- (idiom) carefree; offhand; casual
- avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid
- to entrap; to set up; to frame (up); to make false charges against
- children; sons and daughters
- 生意 shēng yi: 生意 sheng1 yi5: business; CL:筆|笔[bi3]生意 shēng yì: 生意 sheng1 yi4: life force; vitality
- (of sb or sth) whole or entire body
- (idiom) cannot refrain from; cannot help; cannot but
- pleased; happy
- (interj. of admiration or of disgust); to click one's tongue; to attempt to (find an opportunity to) speak
- 程 Chéng: 程 Cheng2: surname Cheng程 chéng: 程 cheng2: rule; order; regulations; formula; journey; procedure; sequence
- surname Guo; Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國|西虢国[Xi1 Guo2 guo2] and Eastern Guo 東虢國|东虢国[Dong1 Guo2 guo2]
- to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
- to take the bait
- to start to have doubts; to grow suspicious
- to set aside for
- to insert; to stick in; to plug in (an electronic device)
- to devour
- thing; object
- (coll.) to be done for
- gravitation (force); attraction
- close; familiar; intimate; closely (related); to foster close ties; to pay close attention
- to conform (with); to echo; to correlate well; (linguistics) agreement
- to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort
- greatest; most important
- unilateral
- sudden inspiration; flash of insight; brainwave
- to move; to exercise; sports; exercise; motion; movement; campaign; CL:場|场[chang3]
- lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom); fig. great scourges; extremely dangerous or threatening things
- not a word or movement (idiom); remaining calm and collected; not batting an eyelid
- quietly; noiselessly
- (idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
- to release; to set free; to allow (a person or an animal) to go; to liberate
- gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- 边 biān: 边 bian1: side; edge; margin; border; boundary; CL:個|个[ge4]; simultaneously边 bian: 边 bian5: suffix of a noun of locality
- knife; CL:把[ba3]
- 刺 cì: 刺 ci4: thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder刺 cī: 刺 ci1: (onom.) whoosh
- abdomen; belly; flank