Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end; to link
- to advocate; to initiate; to propose; to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought)
- what time?; when?
- staunch; strong
- one-way road
- unequalled; without rival; a paragon
- abyss
- to turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things
- sultry; sultriness; hot and stuffy; stifling hot
- humidity level
- to shake; to vibrate; to strongly affect; shock; vibration
- labor pains; (fig.) distress caused by a disruptive change
- to abrade; to scrape; to chafe; to graze; abrasion; friction burn; scratch
- slope; incline
- slope; CL:個|个[ge4]; sloping; slanted
- suit; Western-style clothes (historical usage)
- gradient; slope
- repeatedly; time and time again
- to take an alternate route (idiom); to find an alternative; to take a different approach; to blaze a new trail
- to be compelled; to be forced
- rumble
- to give directions
- to branch; to fork; fork; branch; bifurcation
- to give rise to; to derive; derivative; derivation
- court (of king or emperor)
- 黄 Huáng: 黄 Huang2: surname Huang or Hwang黄 huáng: 黄 huang2: yellow; pornographic; to fall through
- (onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑); tinkling of gem-pendants