Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to lose; to throw away; to discard; to cast away
- eager; impatient
- 喂 wéi: 喂 wei2: hello (when answering the phone)喂 wèi: 喂 wei4: hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)喂 wèi: 喂 wei4: to feed
- to look for
- charming eyes; coquettish glances
- constraint; to detain; to take into custody
- to leave
- homicide (law)
- (sports) draw; tie
- place name; toponym
- exquisitely made; very clever
- qi and blood (two basic bodily fluids of Chinese medicine)
- stammeringly
- (literary) graceful
- uneasy; ill at ease
- breakfast; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
- to roll one's eyes
- guesthouse; lodge; hotel; CL:個|个[ge4],家[jia1]
- residence; dwelling
- to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)
- to dispute; to disagree; to argue opinionatedly; to wrangle
- 个头 gè tóu: 个头 ge4 tou2: size; height个头 ge tóu: 个头 ge5 tou2: (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in 專家個頭|专家个头[zhuan1 jia1 ge5 tou2] "expert", my ass!)
- sb who is easy to deal with (usu. in the negative, e.g. after 不是[bu4 shi4])
- smell of gunpowder; (fig.) combative tone; belligerence
- nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape; new lease of life
- taboo; contraindication (medicine); to abstain from
- to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
- to die suddenly
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- index finger; (literary) mouths to feed