Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- thief
- to whine; to be grouchy
- high-rise; high level; high class
- general manager; CEO
- crime scene
- successful career woman; able woman
- to overturn; to turn upside down
- to rebuild; to reconstruct; to reestablish
- manager; director; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- reward; remuneration
- to move (to pity); arousing (sympathy); touching
- coffee shop
- private room (in a restaurant, or for karaoke etc); parlor; booth; compartment
- reserved; overcautious
- cup; glass; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- to move back and forth; to fiddle with
- office worker; staff member; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- trembling with fear; with fear and trepidation
- to turn on the light
- to steal (including identity theft, credit card fraud or theft of computer account); to misappropriate
- to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
- ice queen (beautiful woman who appears to be emotionless and distant)
- to have no contact with; to be cut off from; (electricity) to insulate
- to overstep the bounds of what is proper; to take sth too far; (of a measuring device) to go off the scale
- the sky; the heavens
- suspicion; to have suspicions
- accidental; image; pair; mate
- adept; skilled
- 切口 qiē kǒu: 切口 qie1 kou3: incision; notch; slit; gash; margin of a page; trimmed edge (of a page in a book)切口 qiè kǒu: 切口 qie4 kou3: slang; argot; private language used as secret code
- 载 zǎi: 载 zai3: to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year载 zài: 载 zai4: to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously
- parts of the country other than where one is
- top of a building
- 居 Jū: 居 Ju1: surname Ju居 jī: 居 ji1: (archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitude居 jū: 居 ju1: to reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up; to be at a standstill; residence; house; restaurant; classifier for bedrooms
- 天台 Tiān tāi: 天台 Tian1 tai1: Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗; Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州[Tai1 zhou1], Zhejiang天台 tiān tái: 天台 tian1 tai2: rooftop
- a building of two or more stories; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4]
- geology
- rent for a room or house
- landlord
- 捋 lǚ: 捋 lu:3: to smooth or arrange sth using one's fingers; to stroke捋 lūo: 捋 luo1: to hold sth long and run one's hand along it
- to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable
- outmoded; old-fashioned; inflexible