Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- (idiom) homeless
- manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type
- (idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking
- to endanger; to jeopardize; a danger (to life, national security etc)
- core; nucleus
- to mark time (military); to make no headway
- vicious circle; (abnormal) phenomenon
- urgent; pressing; imperative
- lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom); fig. you'll have to take the consequences
- (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one); CL:把[ba3]
- see 烏壓壓|乌压压[wu1 ya1 ya1]
- to eat till full; satisfied
- (idiom) that's all; just this and nothing more
- (idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
- lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated; to vanish in a puff of smoke
- to slide down (a slope etc); (fig.) to decline
- sign; mark; symbol; to mark up; (computing) token
- an iron ring
- 30 catties; great; your (honorific)
- (Japanese mahjong) to complete one's hand within a single turn after declaring riichi (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 一発 "ippatsu")
- pinup picture; poster
- choice of person; candidate
- Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬[Liao4 Fu2 bin1], Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer
- to hook onto; to hitch onto; to catch onto
- fortunately (formal writing)
- scorpion
- highly toxic; extremely poisonous
- waist; hips
- effectiveness; positive effect; to serve (in some capacity)
- to wander aimlessly
- statistics; to count; to add up
- (biology) dormant; (of a volcano) dormant; (computing) to hibernate
- to search everywhere; to search high and low; to comb
- (idiom) fragmented; scattered; in disarray; at sixes and sevens
- to shake; to fling one's arm; to lash; to swing
- name of a river
- 师 Shī: 师 Shi1: surname Shi师 shī: 师 shi1: teacher; master; expert; model; army division; (old) troops; to dispatch troops