Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views
- to arouse; to incite; to excite; to stimulate; sharp; fierce; violent
- to appoint; (job) appointment; CL:紙|纸[zhi3]
- shelf; frame; stand; framework; airs; arrogance
- to brainwash
- to have in one's person (feelings, talent etc)
- lackey; henchman
- to cast sidelong glances at sb
- to lengthen; to pull sth out longer
- to have one's heart filled with; (to collide) full on; (of farm animals) heavy with young
- to block; to obstruct; to clog
- 龟 gūi: 龟 gui1: tortoise; turtle; (coll.) cuckold龟 qīu: 龟 qiu1: used in 龜茲|龟兹[Qiu1 ci2]
- fast; rapid; quick; velocity
- resistance; drag
- to be in the way; to block the path
- to approach; to draw near; to be close to (in space or time)
- to renege; to go back (on a deal); to back out (of a promise)
- tinder; source of a fire; inflammable material; (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
- 大方 dà fang: 大方 da4 fang5: generous; magnanimous; stylish; in good taste; easy-mannered; natural and relaxed大方 dà fāng: 大方 da4 fang1: expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea大方 Dà fāng: 大方 Da4 fang1: see 大方縣|大方县[Da4 fang1 Xian4]
- ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
- cannot afford; can't afford buying
- peak; apex; world best; number one; finest (competitors); top (figures in a certain field)
- to place in; to put in (a position)
- to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor; evildoer; to perpetrate outrages
- to be unable to repress sth; to be unable to contain oneself
- to prescribe medicine; to drug; to poison
- lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom); fig. easily solved
- (idiom) to have never met; to be complete strangers
- idol
- butcher's shop
- to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face
- emotional; sentimental
- the rest; the others; remaining; remainder; apart from them
- nothing remains the same (idiom); change beyond recognition
- insane; mad; wild
- a bunch; to tie together; bundle
- iron chain
- 哀 āi: 哀 Ai1: Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2]哀 āi: 哀 ai1: (bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole
- 切 qiē: 切 qie1: to cut; to slice; to carve; (math.) tangential切 qiè: 切 qie4: definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters)
- to have no alternative (idiom); compelled by circumstances; forced into sth
- in a mess; scattered about; in complete disorder
- still; yet; to remain; (literary) frequently; often
- to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in; to chat