Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to; to match; to balance; to offset; to mortgage; to make up for; to compensate for; to arrive at; to reach; to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
- chin
- excited; stimulated
- to hit; to strike; to attack; to crack down on sth; blow; (psychological) shock; percussion (music)
- horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
- to stay for a while; to sojourn
- shift working
- to change shift; the next work shift; to relieve (a workman on the previous shift); to take over the job
- plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
- to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
- this time
- strict; rigid; tight (security)
- to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super-
- to take risks; to take chances; foray; adventure
- to ensure; to guarantee; to safeguard
- measure; step; CL:個|个[ge4]
- inside information; the ins and outs of the matter; how things stand; what's up
- to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger
- so deep one cannot see to the bottom; limitless
- to look in all directions (idiom); to glance around
- ahead of schedule; sooner than planned; to bring forward (to an earlier time)
- poison gas; toxic gas; manifestation of passion, anger etc (Buddhism)
- marsh gas; methane CH4
- to dig into; to cut a mine into
- to subside; to sink; to cave in
- bottom
- two quite different things; two unrelated matters
- arrow; CL:支[zhi1]