Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to curse
- outdoor
- to prepare a meal; to cook
- 会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])
- to lie; to tell an untruth
- to return home
- luxurious
- villa; CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4]
- house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- to ambush; to lie in wait for; to lie low; ambush
- to save; to support; to help; to assist
- to give sb a word of advice; advice; counsel; a wise word
- to suffer attack; to be ambushed
- haunted
- grave; tomb
- bitter struggle; hard battle; arduous effort
- to besiege; to beleaguer; to attack from all sides; to jointly speak or write against sb
- false; phony; sham
- world
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 苗 Miáo: 苗 Miao2: surname Miao; Miao ethnic group苗 miáo: 苗 miao2: sprout
- border; boundary
- to feel guilty; to feel ashamed of oneself; to be remorseful
- 满 mǎn: 满 man3: to fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; contented满 Mǎn: 满 Man3: Manchu ethnic group
- danger; dangerous
- 地方 dì fang: 地方 di4 fang5: place; location; area; space; territory; aspect; part; CL:處|处[chu4]地方 dì fāng: 地方 di4 fang1: region; regional (away from the central administration); local
- to understand; to realize; to find out
- to cheat sb; a scam
- all living things
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- day; sky; heaven
- true; real
- 花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- stone; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- to test (machinery etc); to test (a person's skill in a particular area); a test; (computing) beta (version of software)
- clan elder
- to be reborn; rebirth
- arch. legendary venomous insect; to poison; to bewitch; to drive to insanity; to harm by witchcraft; intestinal parasite
- emergency; sudden occurrence
- sect; faction
- to negotiate; discussion; proposal
- to choose (literary)
- old fellow; old man; father; husband