Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to call; to address as; form of address; appellation
- 胖 pán: 胖 pan2: healthy; at ease胖 pàng: 胖 pang4: fat; plump
- pulse (both medical and figurative)
- gap; interval; compartment; to divide; to separate; to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)
- to claim (as one's property); to adopt (a child); to accept (an illegitimate child as one's own)
- sincere; solid
- to resolve; to decompose; to break down
- result; achievement; gain; profit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- funeral expenses
- (idiom) mortal danger; fatal disaster
- to do as one sees fit; to play it by ear (according to the circumstances)
- thick and solid
- to criticize; criticism; CL:次[ci4],番[fan1]
- to regard as important; to value
- hay
- oil; fat; grease; petroleum; to apply tung oil, paint or varnish; oily; greasy; glib; cunning
- scarce; scarcity
- maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- trunk; main; core
- (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly; (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat; (bound form) to put in order; to straighten; (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb; (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to
- tree trunk
- to chop off
- to talk rubbish
- to kneel down
- in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; white
- to leap up; (coll.) to gush out; to spurt out
- to hold one's breath; to feel suffocated (for lack of air); choked with bottled-up resentment
- can't keep up with; can't catch up with; cannot overtake
- in a spurt of energy
- sharp weapon; effective implement; outstandingly able individual
- to act recklessly; to mess around
- to die without a burial site; to die a pauper; a tragic end
- shrub; small tree; sapling; CL:棵[ke1]
- to spiral; to circle; to go around; to hover; to orbit