Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to settle; to finish; to conclude; to wind up
- to kill; to shoot dead
- tranquil; tranquility; serenity
- (military) rank; level; grade
- to take care; to keep an eye on; to look after; to tell; to remind
- (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off!
- to overestimate one's capabilities (idiom)
- busy and unable to get away
- lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom); fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
- to cut off; to isolate; isolated (from the world)
- luckily; by a fluke
- alms bowl
- roof; topmost part; top (of tree, wall etc); apex
- (idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place
- to interweave
- trend; tendency
- sugar; sweets; candy; CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]
- to screen; to shield; to cover; protection; cover; CL:面[mian4]
- to observe and make sure; to check
- manual; manually operated; manual gear-change
- pointless; meaningless; unnecessarily
- to start using; (computing) to enable (a feature)
- remorse; repentance
- like wildfire (idiom); unstoppable
- relative superiority (better or worse, stronger or weaker, above or below etc)
- to sequester; to seal up (for safe keeping); to freeze (an account); to mothball
- rich and powerful
- to play games; to joke around; to play a joke on sb
- to thwart; to obstruct (sth)
- (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound
- stream of people; abortion; abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产[ren2 gong1 liu2 chan3]
- to bruise; to hurt (something)
- vein
- to nurse one's health; to recuperate; to take care of; to look after; to discipline; to educate; to train; to prepare food; (dialect) to make fun of; (medicine) to opsonize
- acupuncture and moxibustion; to give or have acupuncture and moxibustion
- Fuxi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852–2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing
- acupuncture point; acupoint
- brow beaded with sweat; perspiring freely