Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- double-sided; two-faced; double-edged; reversible
- to infer; to gather
- the moon
- full moon
- small box; case
- acquaintance; friend
- for the first time; first (meeting, attempt etc)
- appearance; to appear
- to be determined to; to insist on
- to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble
- valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by
- hole; opening; cut; gap; gash; my husband or wife; classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc); precedent
- to lend to sb
- lit. either the fish dies or the net splits; a life and death struggle (idiom)
- to arrange; to order about; to manipulate
- not necessarily; not likely
- lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon; to take a leading role; to build a personal fiefdom
- good intention; kindness
- to attract; to incur
- (saying) everyone minds their own business
- to put sth back where it belongs; to return to the original position; to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
- number of times; frequency; order number (in a series); power (math.); degree of a polynomial (math.)
- to conspire
- preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- negative; the negative side
- to accumulate
- to refine; to smelt
- leading; dominant; prevailing; to lead; to direct; to dominate
- to kill with an explosion
- to take care; to look out
- to degrade; to degenerate; to become depraved; corrupt; a fall from grace
- bottomless pit
- to fill a gap; to fill in a blank (on a form); to overcome a deficiency
- to activate
- to underestimate; to underrate
- clear; limpid
- initiative (as in "seize the initiative"); advantageous position that allows one to call the shots
- excessive; over-; excess; going too far; extravagant; intemperate; overdue
- meddling in other people's business