Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- without hope; hopeless; without prospects
- opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality
- river; stream
- to penetrate deeply; thorough
- 束 shù: 束 shu4: to bind; bunch; bundle; classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc; to control束 Shù: 束 Shu4: surname Shu
- minor road; lane; pathway; trail
- the Peach Blossom Spring, a hidden land of peace and prosperity; utopia
- field; open land; CL:片[pian4]
- farming; crops
- woman
- field; farm; farming area; village
- to frolic; to romp
- to quarrel; to squabble; to be rowdy; to play boisterously; to engage in horseplay
- 纳 Nà: 纳 Na4: surname Na纳 nà: 纳 na4: to receive; to accept; to enjoy; to bring into; to pay (tax etc); nano- (one billionth); to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewing
- to catch cold; Taiwan pr. [zhao1 liang2]
- outsider; foreigner; stranger
- to be surprised; to be amazed; to be stunned
- to bring one's own; BYO; (of software) preinstalled
- mien; bearing; grace; amorous feelings; flirtatious expressions; local conditions and customs; wind force, direction etc
- every frown and every smile
- all; each and every; in all cases
- touching; moving
- (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim; (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded
- they; them (females)
- a real person; Daoist spiritual master
- good looks; beauty; good-looking
- to fear; to be terrified
- rural area; village; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to originate in
- husband
- good looks; pretty (e.g. young woman)
- married woman
- 挣 zhēng: 挣 zheng1: used in 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]挣 zhèng: 挣 zheng4: to struggle to get free; to strive to acquire; to make (money)
- to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
- employment opportunity; job opening
- labor force; manpower
- poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- rustic; village; countryside
- century
- to step across; step over
- to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
- see 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
- see 昭通市[Zhao1 tong1 Shi4]
- Yunnan Province, capital Kunming 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 Shi4] (short name 雲|云[Yun2] or 滇[Dian1])
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods