Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to take off (one's clothes); (fig.) to shed (one's former image etc); (of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside; also pr. [tun4 qu4]
- (lit. and fig.) to cool
- to breathe deeply; to pant; to gasp; to take a breather; to catch one's breath
- ability; capable
- (slang) heroin
- face
- lit. what the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes (idiom) skilled at the job; entirely in one's element; going smoothly and easily
- to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- corner (junction of two walls)
- to compose; to constitute; compound; synthesis; mixture; synthetic
- 核 hé: 核 he2: pit; stone; nucleus; nuclear; to examine; to check; to verify核 hé: 核 he2: to investigate
- to defect; to betray; to mutiny
- to watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself
- Peking University (abbr. for 北京大學|北京大学)
- to charge into
- battlefield situation; battle progress
- clever; witty; intelligent; deft; adroit
- hard to untie, hard to separate (idiom); inextricably involved; locked in battle
- advantageous; favorable
- romantic
- deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths; incomprehensible; enigmatic and impossible to predict
- experiment; test; CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]; to experiment; experimental
- (typically followed by 就[jiu4]) apt to (lose one's temper, catch a cold etc); at the drop of a hat
- (of a sports competition or match) to commence; (of a war or battle) to break out; to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera); to brawl; to come to blows
- 砌 qì: 砌 qi4: to build by laying bricks or stones砌 qiè: 砌 qie4: used in 砌末[qie4 mo5]
- handwork; manual
- delicate; fine; careful; meticulous; painstaking
- now hot, now cold; (of one's mood, affection etc) to alternate
- frozen stiff; numb with cold
- zero degree