Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- (idiom) to imagine the wildest thing; to indulge in fantasy
- both sides
- pincer attack; attack from two or more sides; converging attack; attack on a flank; fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
- important; urgent
- to ravage; to ruin
- to temper oneself; to steel oneself; self-discipline; endurance
- will; willpower; determination
- the next life
- untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
- to spread extensively; to generalize; widespread; popular; universal; ubiquitous; pervasive
- team
- (onom.) rumbling; rolling
- fingernail
- seam; join; juncture
- to play hide-and-seek
- big head; mask in the shape of a big head; the larger end of sth; the main part; the lion's share; dupe; sucker; (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] on the obverse side
- rear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object)
- long-distance
- to pay up; to shell out; to hand over the money to cover sth
- prize; award; bonus; reward; (bound form) to encourage; to commend; to praise; to award; to give as a reward
- to smash up; to vandalize
- (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
- to surpass; to exceed; to outstrip
- (literary) if; supposing that
- stand-in; substitute; body double; stuntman; scapegoat; fall guy; to stand in for sb else
- island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]
- 狮子 shī zi: 狮子 shi1 zi5: lion; CL:隻|只[zhi1],頭|头[tou2]狮子 Shī zǐ: 狮子 Shi1 zi3: Leo (star sign); Shihtzu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
- regent; monarch
- point of penetration (military); breakthrough
- to find a path
- England
- pure; clean and honest; to purify
- road hub; major crossroad
- to import; to input
- might; formidable
- in a mess; in a jumble; chaotic
- to outflank; to envelop