Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- vertigo; dizziness; fainting; feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke); Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1]
- to offer respectfully; to consecrate; to dedicate; to devote
- (idiom) to like sth so much that one is reluctant to put it down; to find sth utterly irresistible
- Welcome! (used by staff to greet customers when they enter a shop or restaurant)
- frequent visitor; fig. sth that crops up frequently
- drink; drinking or drinkable (water)
- side effect
- drugs; narcotics
- to get into a habit; to become addicted
- the gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
- not able to keep up with
- cling
- pliers; pincers; tongs; forceps; vise; clamp; claw (of a crab etc); CL:把[ba3]; (dialect) earring
- a funeral home; an undertaker's
- ice cube; ice chunk
- to become deformed; to change shape; to morph
- lack; shortage of; shortfall; to be short (of); to lack
- tree hollow; (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets; (slang) confidant
- to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack
- to have; to possess; to own
- weakly and without strength (idiom); dispirited
- loss; damage; CL:個|个[ge4]; to lose; to suffer damage
- (idiom) apprehensive; alarmed; anxious
- coy; childish
- to lay bare in a few words; to expose with a word; to point out bluntly
- discouraged; downhearted
- irascible; irritable
- depressed; despondent; gloomy
- to mutilate oneself; self-harm
- mind; mental faculties
- to guide; to lead (around); to conduct; to boot; introduction; primer
- there is not much left
- to dilute
- rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting); to exaggerate; to embellish
- to rescue; to pluck from danger