Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- antisocial; reclusive; eccentric
- painstaking effort; to take a lot of trouble; laborious at pains
- to study meticulously; to delve into
- by chance; as chance would have it
- interest; taste
- to share common interests or views; to get along well; congenial
- in the end; finally; as a result
- unable to understand; unable to get over
- extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional
- urgent; pressing
- blurred (landscape etc); low (spirits); in a slump (economy)
- hall; concourse; public lounge; (hotel) lobby
- to view sb as an enemy; to be hateful towards
- gaze; insight; foresight; vision; way of looking at things
- lacking in confidence; diffident; to have a guilty conscience
- to separate oneself from; to break away from; diastasis (medicine); abscission; abjunction (botany)
- host (of a parasite)
- burly; strapping; big and strong
- cruel; vicious; fierce and malicious; vengeful
- 厉 lì: 厉 li4: strict; severe厉 Lì: 厉 Li4: surname Li
- scar; traces
- pure; innocent
- the end; an ending; to wind down; to conclude
- rage; fury; hot anger
- in hundred and one ways; in every possible way; by every means
- stratagem; scheme
- to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) hypothesis
- let alone; to say nothing of; besides; what's more
- decadent; dispirited; depressed; dejected
- to hide oneself; invisible (person or online status)
- strong; sturdy; robust
- to mature; to grow; growth
- to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)
- (physiology) organ; apparatus
- metabolism (biology); the new replaces the old (idiom)
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
- apprentice; disciple
- to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience