Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- common people
- Zhaotong, prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
- village
- village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]
- to make money
- base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
- to be suspicious and jealous of
- vigilance; wariness
- way; method; Taiwan pr. [fa2 zi5]
- tractor; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- mountain area; CL:個|个[ge4]
- topography; terrain; landform
- to lead the way; to guide; to show the way; (fig.) to instruct
- means of transportation; vehicle
- seven; 7
- to get dark; dusk
- at ease; to feel relieved; to set one's mind at rest; to keep one's mind on sth
- 鱼 Yú: 鱼 Yu2: surname Yu鱼 yú: 鱼 yu2: fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]); used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4 yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4 yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1 yu2])
- child; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 老公 lǎo gong: 老公 lao3 gong5: (coll.) eunuch; see also 老公[lao3 gong1]老公 lǎo gōng: 老公 lao3 gong1: (coll.) husband
- to avoid arousing suspicion
- to arrive; arrival; advent
- to decorate; to dress; to make up; to adorn; manner of dressing; style of dress
- plain and simple; unadorned; simple living; not frivolous
- to put on makeup
- lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1]) (idiom); fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup; to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
- (bound form) may; can; (bound form) to endure; to bear; (in 堪輿|堪舆[kan1 yu2]) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆[yu2])
- star; celebrity
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- to lie; to crouch
- narrow
- (physics) inertia; (fig.) force of habit; tendency to do things in the accustomed way; habitual
- soft
- perfectly round; (fig.) accommodating; considerate; smooth (way of doing things)
- to gently caress and stroke; to pet; to fondle
- (bound form) hollow space
- soft; flexible; supple; yielding; rho (Greek letter Ρρ)
- to give vent to (one's feelings)
- to seduce; to tempt
- the way one carries oneself