Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn
- to be concerned about; to care about
- mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
- nature; innate tendency
- to block; to obstruct; to intercept; to interdict
- not ever; not necessarily
- to hide; to cover up; to conceal
- order; command; CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
- rashly; hastily; without careful consideration
- to fight bravely; (fig.) to struggle; to work hard
- low temperature
- a post; a job
- to volunteer for; to offer to undertake
- 教会 jiào hùi: 教会 jiao4 hui4: Christian church教会 jiāo hùi: 教会 jiao1 hui4: to show; to teach
- girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment)
- to join in the fun; to get in on the action; (fig.) to butt in; to create more trouble
- to renege on a debt
- 板 bǎn: 板 ban3: board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious板 pàn: 板 pan4: to catch sight of in a doorway (old)板 bǎn: 板 ban3: used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]
- (idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
- account; bill; debt; CL:本[ben3],筆|笔[bi3]
- to excise; to cut out (a tumor)
- misunderstanding; estrangement; (language etc) barrier
- to hope to reach; to strive for
- intelligence; intellect
- son
- handsome guy; lady-killer; handsome (form of address)
- to resist; to boycott; to refuse (to cooperate); to reject; resistance; refusal
- bright; clear; crisp; open; frank; straightforward; to feel well; fine; pleasurable; invigorating; to deviate
- long sigh; deep sigh
- 闲 xián: 闲 xian2: enclosure; unoccupied; leisure闲 xián: 闲 xian2: idle; unoccupied; leisure
- to cook; cooking
- to plot; to scheme; to calculate
- all day long; the whole day
- to cook