Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to consider as; to take to be
- hollow layer between two solid layers; (architecture) mezzanine
- nature (the natural world)
- food chain
- chance; opportunity; predestined relationship; (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes; chain of cause and effect
- sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
- thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress
- 皮 pí: 皮 pi2: skin; peel; rind; outer layer; leather; hide; fur; cover; wrapping; outer covering; (of food) no longer crisp; soggy; (coll.) naughty; mischievous; pico- (10⁻¹²)皮 Pí: 皮 Pi2: surname Pi
- 嚼 jiáo: 嚼 jiao2: to chew; also pr. [jue2]嚼 jiào: 嚼 jiao4: used in 倒嚼[dao3 jiao4]
- quality of meat; succulent (botany)
- taste; flavor; feeling
- to study medicine
- human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes
- to be available at any time; to be on call
- to extend; to spread
- dealings; contacts; to go back and forth
- to retreat
- to be unable to endure
- 托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm; sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest); (bound form) a shill; torr (unit of pressure)托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee
- to contain; to embody; to include
- subterranean; underground
- ash from burnt paper
- to forge (metal); forging
- genre of folk song with accompaniment of bamboo clappers
- hubbub; hustle and bustle
- 名山 míng shān: 名山 ming2 shan1: famous mountain名山 Míng shān: 名山 Ming2 shan1: see 名山區|名山区[Ming2 shan1 Qu1]
- smoke and dust; air pollution
- astringent; tart; acerbity; unsmooth; rough (surface); hard to understand; obscure
- 尽 jǐn: 尽 jin3: to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to尽 jìn: 尽 jin4: to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy; corrupt
- food chain
- (of two or more things) to occur at the same time; to be mingled; to accompany each other
- to set sth upright or straight; to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal); (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
- refreshed; rejuvenated; frank and straightforward