Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to touch
- to measure time; to time; to reckon by time
- to roll out; to extend; to smooth out; to unfold
- woman; the female sex
- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
- to pick out; to select; to elect
- (time) second
- whether or not (at the end of a phrase)
- paralyzed
- right side; right, to the right
- poison
- (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
- (used as phonetic "ka")
- (dialect) to grasp (sth long or cylindrical) and slide the hand up or down; (dialect) to fire (an employee); (dialect) to reprimand
- voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self-
- to differ to some extent (idiom)
- pattern; way of doing sth; trick; ruse; fancy-style (as in 花樣滑冰|花样滑冰[hua1 yang4 hua2 bing1] figure skating)
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
- to step back
- to remain; to be left; to have as remainder
- to imagine; to assume; to envisage; tentative plan; to have consideration for
- (idiom) (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground
- movie; film; CL:部[bu4],片[pian4],場|场[chang3]
- 噌 cēng: 噌 ceng1: to scold; whoosh!噌 chēng: 噌 cheng1: sound of bells etc
- gas (i.e. gaseous substance)
- to linger on; to hover; to encircle
- excellent; outstanding
- spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice; code of brotherhood; also pr. [yi4 qi5]
- to repay; to requite
- each person; everybody; per person
- to execute on the spot (idiom); summary execution; to carry out the law on the spot
- fart; flatulence; nonsense; (usu. in the negative) what; (not) a damn thing
- to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping; unctuous fawning