Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- 佳 jiā: 佳 jia1: beautiful; fine; good佳 Jiā: 佳 Jia1: surname Jia
- ability; capability
- ethics
- large-scale Chinese opera; Beijing opera; major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
- one's proper business
- to act in a fit of pique; to get in a huff; to be peeved
- importance
- to roam all over the place; to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate; (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run; to flee and try to hide
- hollow; emptiness; meaningless
- dripping with sweat
- to exhaust; to use up completely
- see 二話不說|二话不说[er4 hua4 bu4 shuo1]
- low-grade; of low worth or rank; poor quality; inferior
- superfluous; unnecessary; surplus
- since the beginning of history
- to stop; to resist; to obstruct
- to knock down; knocked down
- to lighten; to ease; to alleviate
- to get out of the way
- 清流 Qīng líu: 清流 Qing1 liu2: see 清流縣|清流县[Qing1 liu2 Xian4]清流 qīng líu: 清流 qing1 liu2: clean flowing water; (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences; scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power
- mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling
- to go all out for sth at risk of one's life
- reasoning; inference; to infer; to deduce
- to violate; to offend
- 校 jiào: 校 jiao4: to check; to collate; to proofread校 xiào: 校 xiao4: (bound form) school; college; (bound form) (military) field officer
- timidity; timid; cowardly
- to punch
- to scatter; to break sth up; to beat (an egg)
- to grasp (often fig.); to control; to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny); to master; to know well; to understand sth well and know how to use it; fluency
- skill; technique
- to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas; (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on
- to overflow; to spill over; (computing) overflow
- internal injury; disorder of internal organs (due to improper nutrition, overexertion etc)
- endurance
- to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- a short time; a little while
- hole; opening; orifice (of the human body); (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)
- to enquire solicitously about sb's well-being (idiom); to pamper
- to nod
- to have a look