Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)
- (derog.) Buddhist monk
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- to lose face
- to spur sb into action by making negative remarks
- crafty and evil; a treacherous villain
- rigid; inflexible
- one's thoughts and feelings; emotional stirring; moved; touched
- to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife
- lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency
- to tumble; to fall; fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
- total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipeout
- not up to much; very indifferent; nothing great about it; nothing good to be said about it
- (idiom) calm; unhurried; composed
- (idiom) poles apart; as different as can be
- (idiom) to take one's time making a decision; to consider at length
- to shoulder; to bear; to undertake
- too polite; overcourteous
- rugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa) (CL:棵[ke1]); rose flower (CL:朵[duo3])
- manly; masculine
- to take care of oneself
- to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively; healthy and active
- damage; harm; CL:個|个[ge4]
- tramp; wanderer
- bustling with noise and excitement; lively
- cheerful; happy; pleasant; delighted
- to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence); (fig.) to undergo a rough experience
- to distribute; to assign; to allocate; to partition (a hard drive)
- starting point; (fig.) basis; motive
- to mishear
- to undergo (hardship); to endure; to withstand
- to veto; to overrule