Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- urbanization
- military strategy
- internal energy
- lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom); fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection
- heart's blood; expenditure (for some project); meticulous care
- to have a power failure; power cut
- (machine) gear; pinion (gear wheel)
- energy sources; energy
- achievement; performance records; grades; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom); to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
- housefly; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- do not
- impatient; hot-tempered
- agile; nimble; deft
- hard to understand; difficult to deal with; knotty; complicated
- 嘉 jiā: 嘉 jia1: excellent; auspicious; to praise; to commend嘉 Jiā: 嘉 Jia1: surname Jia
- by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
- little bell; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- Taoist robe; traditional men's gown
- (idiom) not to be outdone
- to rumble with thunder; clap of thunder
- item (in a program of entertainments); trick (act of mischief); worthwhile result; accomplishment; sth significant but not immediately apparent; sth more than meets the eye
- to hate sb to the bone (idiom)
- guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement; the punishment fits the crime
- to accept tacitly; acquiescence
- 组 Zǔ: 组 Zu3: surname Zu组 zǔ: 组 zu3: to form; to organize; group; team; classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries
- story line; plot; drama (genre)
- to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence; to expunge; to blot out; to suppress
- to save; to remedy; to rescue
- to suppress; to beat down
- opinion; view; understanding