Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- last week
- 曝 pù: 曝 pu4: to air; to sun曝 bào: 曝 bao4: used in 曝光[bao4 guang1]; Taiwan pr. [pu4]
- to evaporate; (fig.) to vanish; to disappear
- ceremony
- (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal
- to install; to place; to put; to buy
- solely engrossed in one thing; just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest); simply; by all means; please feel free; do not hesitate (to ask for sth)
- sometimes; now and then
- fiery; blazing
- to dissolve
- to blend into; to integrate; to assimilate; to merge
- 西 Xī: 西 Xi1: the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanish西 xī: 西 xi1: west
- no matter what; despite; to allow (sb to act arbitrarily)
- (idiom) to lack the ability to do what one would wish
- to bounce; to bounce back; to boomerang; to ricochet; rebound (of stock market etc); bounce; backlash; negative repercussions
- to adhere to a surface; to absorb; to draw in; (fig.) to attract; (chemistry) adsorption
- from now on; since then; henceforth
- to compete fiercely; contest
- to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience
- to emerge in large numbers; to spring up; to emerge prominently
- unimportant; not serious; it doesn't matter; never mind; it looks all right, but
- in other words; that is
- to take over (duties etc); catcher (baseball etc)
- to get over (a shock, bereavement etc); to avoid dwelling on unpleasant things; to accept the situation and move on
- myriad; multitudinous; multifarious
- inclining to the west (e.g. of the sun after noon, indicating lateness of the day)
- attractive force (such as gravitation); sex appeal; attractiveness
- to correct one's errors; to mend one's ways
- accidentally; to act before thinking
- old tomb (archaeology)
- pearl; bead; CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
- to darken
- toxicity
- to calm (soothe) the nerves; to relieve uneasiness of body and mind
- to steal; to rob; to plunder; thief; bandit; robber
- working hand; member of a work team; participant; the boss (short form of 第一把手[di4 yi1 ba3 shou3])
- fortunately