Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- (idiom) unable to hold oneself back; eager to do sth without delay
- lawful; legitimate; legal
- shady business
- to get out of the way; to step aside
- to label; to call
- to flow out; to issue; to leak
- vicious; malicious; savage
- back of the knife
- 滑 huá: 滑 hua2: to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted滑 Huá: 滑 Hua2: surname Hua
- heel
- toe
- to exert (effort or pressure)
- protector God; patron saint
- to fix a time; fixed time; timed (of explosive etc)
- to alternate; to take turns
- lanes and alleys; neighborhood; lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families
- 易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
- to eliminate; to do away with; to get rid of
- (Buddhism) to be reincarnated; (fig.) to be lenient; to spare sb; to have more children than allowed under family planning policy
- (of a person) upright; respectable; decent; (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable
- to amend; to alter; to modify
- heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- best feature; most important part of an object; quintessence; essence; soul
- to guide; to show the way
- to execute; the law
- almost; nearing completion; bits and piece; of all kinds
- funeral arrangements
- philosophic theory; philosophy
- to take care of (a matter); to get (a task) done; to handle (a project) expeditiously
- persuasiveness
- to go from house to house