Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- Shenkeng township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- dry land (as opposed to the sea)
- body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired; spent
- to be discouraged
- earnest
- 凹 āo: 凹 ao1: concave; depressed; sunken; indented; female (connector etc)凹 wā: 凹 wa1: (used in names)
- to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls)
- width; extent; range; scope
- arc
- building; structure; edifice
- a doubtful point
- to act discourteously; forgive me (for my impropriety)
- overseas; abroad
- slab; board; plank; CL:張|张[zhang1],塊|块[kuai4]
- to tie up
- survey; to measure; to gauge; to determine
- artificial; manpower; manual work
- thin; rarefied
- to swing; to sway; to wobble; to hang around; to hover around
- to suspect everyone; overly suspicious
- forbidden area; restricted area; (fig.) sth considered off-limits
- royal; imperial household
- boundary; state; realm
- to execute (a plan); to grasp
- to be on the move; to roam or wander; to circulate (of goods or capital)
- lunch; luncheon; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- bamboo flute; CL:管[guan3]
- false appearance; facade
- to express; to exhibit
- to the end (of); at the end of; in the end; to come to an end
- to coexist
- 开封 kāi fēng: 开封 kai1 feng1: to open (sth that has been sealed)开封 Kāi fēng: 开封 Kai1 feng1: see 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 Shi4]
- to gain nothing; to end up empty-handed