Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to eat a meal
- bowl and chopsticks; tableware
- to lose (sth); to drop (sth); to feel a sense of loss; frustrated; disappointment; loss
- to keep a firm grip on; to pay close attention to; to lose no time in (doing sth)
- to raise; to increase
- member
- male-female; male and female
- to choke; to stifle; to suffocate
- box; case; hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines
- to forge (metal); (fig.) to create; to build; to develop
- to turn over (when lying); (fig.) to free oneself; to emancipate oneself; to bring about a change of one's fortunes
- conceited; to take responsibility
- to furnish; to provide; supply (as in supply and demand)
- to exist; to survive
- cover; lid; shell
- cemetery
- numerous and close together; densely packed; thickly dotted
- to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist; (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve
- awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass)
- vivid; lively; (of food ingredients) live or fresh
- to flow
- to recollect; to remember; memory
- to beat; to lash
- to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down
- very red; red through and through; to blush (deep red)
- to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story; (math.) sheaf; classifier for layers
- crystal
- to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out; to omit (a character when writing)
- child; childish
- (coll.) mother's father; maternal grandfather
- (coll.) mother's mother; maternal grandmother
- to love; to pamper; to spoil; to favor
- to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
- to grow up
- to impel; to carry forward; to push on; to advance; to drive forward
- prelude; presage