Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- savage; furious
- blockhead; idiot; dunce; moron; fool
- to deal with; to cope
- to occur suddenly
- bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡[xi1])
- ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect); to enter upon a period of (classical); Kangxi radical 206; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
- to cover; to spread over; a cover; a shade; a hood; bamboo fish trap; bamboo chicken coop; (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back; (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible; (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住[zhao4 de2 zhu4]) to have things under control; to be able to handle it
- to refine; refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
- stove; furnace
- Living Buddha; title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
- air temperature
- to hide; to evade; to dodge; to take shelter; to avoid (difficulties)
- cyan; blue-green
- to pit oneself against sb; to compete with sb; contest; battle; to haggle; to quibble
- can't wait
- to recognize; to identify
- small crack; chink
- self-awareness
- victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear; equal to (a task)
- 量 liáng: 量 liang2: to measure量 liàng: 量 liang4: capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量詞|量词[liang4 ci2], classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word
- to behead
- 清明 qīng míng: 清明 qing1 ming2: clear and bright; sober and calm; (of a government or administration) well ordered清明 Qīng míng: 清明 Qing1 ming2: Qingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气[er4 shi2 si4 jie2 qi5] 5th-19th April; Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)
- reason; intellect; rationality; rational
- crack; gap; split
- to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
- to die tragically; to meet with a violent death
- (chemistry) to refine
- top secret; hush-hush
- a memo book (recording events)
- to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops
- in any case; anyhow; after all
- to excuse; to forgive; to pardon
- far-fetched; implausible (chain of reasoning)
- grief; resentment; aggrieved; plaintive
- to protrude; to stick out; to pout (also written 噘); to embarrass (people)
- to approve of; to agree with (an opinion, action etc); to endorse
- 挑 tiǎo: 挑 tiao3: to raise; to dig up; to poke; to prick; to incite; to stir up挑 tiāo: 挑 tiao1: to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick
- to understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken)
- to suffer damage
- saving; to save; to use sparingly; to cut down on
- child