Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to consult; to solicit the opinion of
- to change and wash (clothes etc)
- clothing; clothing and other personal items
- should; ought to
- the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties
- (bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
- 宫 Gōng: 宫 Gong1: surname Gong宫 gōng: 宫 gong1: palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated
- to try one's luck; to leave sth to chance
- thunderstorm
- to admire sb's reputation; to seek out famous person or location
- to foresee; to predict; to forecast; to envision; foresight; intuition; vision
- scientist
- ghost of one who died unjustly; departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
- cultural relic; historical relic; CL:件[jian4],個|个[ge4]
- old; ancient; far away
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- to put on display; to exhibit; exhibition; show; CL:個|个[ge4],次[ci4]
- palace; CL:座[zuo4]
- a small part; a small section
- Guangxu Emperor
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- open; overt; public; to make public; to release
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
- (bound form) in a hazy state of mind; (bound form) to snap out of that state; used in 恍如[huang3 ru2] and 恍若[huang3 ruo4]
- unforgettable
- handsome; pretty
- mien; complexion
- just at the time of; honest; upright; (math.) positive value
- foreigner; (esp.) Westerner
- to hound sb to death
- capital of a country
- to salvage; to dredge; to fish out (person or object from the sea)
- to bury (the dead); to inter
- tomb; mausoleum
- buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)