Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging
- superstition; to have a superstitious belief (in sth)
- dog meat
- optimistic; hopeful
- melancholy
- smiling expression
- 期 qī: 期 qi1: period; cycle期 qī: 期 qi1: a period of time; phase; stage; classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study; time; term; period; to hope; Taiwan pr. [qi2]
- 艾 ài: 艾 Ai4: surname Ai艾 ài: 艾 ai4: Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa; used in transliteration
- to rebel; to revolt; a rebel
- puberty; adolescence
- short term; short time
- to pay
- well-behaved girl; good girl
- to cause trouble
- bearing; manner; mien
- imperceptible influence; to influence secretly
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- rich; wealthy; affluent; to be rich in; to be replete with
- old lady
- there's no shortage; there are plenty
- long-winded; garrulous; to talk endlessly without getting to the point
- audience; listeners
- long-winded; garrulous; to talk endlessly without getting to the point
- to absorb; to draw (a lesson, insight etc); to assimilate
- unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling
- to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
- to go up by one grade; to be promoted; to escalate (in intensity); (computing) to upgrade
- to contribute to; to promote
- to peep at; to spy on; to peek
- the imperial family; royal kin
- exhibition; show
- this life; to lose face; to be disgraced
- to present to a superior; memorial; petition; to present (a certain appearance); to assume (a shape); to be (a certain color)
- to wither (and drop off); to wilt; to pass away
- summit; apex; pinnacle (of one's career etc); peak (of a civilization etc)
- to oppress; to rule as a despot; to tyrannize