Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- mountain top
- rich; sumptuous
- to scald
- water pipe
- cold water; unboiled water; fig. not yet ready (of plans)
- fishpond
- rice straw
- to go ashore; to climb ashore; (fig.) to achieve a stable and secure life after a period of struggle (e.g. to get a government job, be admitted to a desirable university, or finally pay off one's debts)
- uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat
- ring around the moon; lunar halo
- to come to a stop; to halt; to keep one's footing; to stay upright; (fig.) to hold one's ground; to gain a firm foothold; (of an assertion etc) to hold up; to be tenable
- manpower; staff; human hand
- to spend money
- family property
- contribution; meritorious service; credit
- scab; to form a scab
- to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever; (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over; (fig.) flourishing; thriving; popular
- organ failure; exhaustion; prostration (medicine)
- strength; intensity; CL:個|个[ge4]
- on the other hand; another aspect
- confident and at ease; free and easy
- gargantuan; as big as the sky; enormous
- kitchen
- lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom); fig. the slightest whiff of trouble
- second half of the night (from midnight to sunrise)
- unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp
- to drink tea; to get engaged; to have a serious conversation; (fig.) to have a meeting with state security agents (to be warned to behave "responsibly")
- merit; efficacy; competence; skill; power
- a mute; mute; silent
- the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology
- injury; wound; trauma
- flourishing; bustling
- liquid crystal
- television set; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- ceiling (of a room); (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field)