Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- floor
- to float (in the air etc); suspension
- to stop; to halt; to cease
- sense of security
- to hold up; to hinder; to stall
- bad; no good; below average; disappointing
- (idiom) to treat sth as no big deal; to downplay; to understate
- to go easy; unhurried; calm; Taiwan pr. [cong1 rong2]
- to kill; to beat to death
- to control; to curb; to restrict; to impede; to pin down (enemy troops)
- to jeer at; to deride; to ridicule; mockery; derision
- Chinese boxing; fist and feet; punching and kicking
- to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom); to lure an enemy away from his territory
- 计 jì: 计 ji4: to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge计 Jì: 计 Ji4: surname Ji
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
- ink marks; original calligraphy or painting of famous person
- 萧 xiāo: 萧 xiao1: (old) Chinese mugwort; (bound form) desolate; dreary萧 Xiāo: 萧 Xiao1: surname Xiao
- safe and sound (idiom); to come out unscathed (e.g. from an accident or illness)
- stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy
- lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom); fig. overwhelming; earth-shattering; in a spectacular mess
- to be a problem; problematic; questionable
- to pay no attention to; not to mind
- to despise; to disdain; to look down upon
- to wait for; to expect; to keep watch; to watch over; to nurse
- to eavesdrop; to wiretap
- a move; an action; in one move; at a stroke; in one go
- (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
- to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain
- fame and power; prestige; influence; impetus; momentum
- to be ready; to be in order
- to lose one's head out of fear (idiom)
- to walk into
- to make a detour; to take the long route