Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- used up; dried up; exhausted (of resources)
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- (idiom) a chance of survival; a fighting chance; a ray of hope
- not to let sb down; to treat sb fairly; be worthy of
- anger
- to help; to assist
- the two of us
- to inform; to notify; to announce; circular; bulletin; (scientific) journal
- lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames; fig. extreme danger (idiom)
- unmarked burial mound; untended graveyard; mass grave
- to provide support; to come to the rescue
- to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world; (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent
- to acquire fraudulently; an illegal exchange
- to put in; to insert
- to tether; to tie up; (fig.) to restrict; to keep a hold on
- pleased; elated
- as things really are; realistic
- to strengthen; to intensify
- size; body size
- to catapult; to launch; to eject (from a plane); to shoot
- (lit. and fig.) corrosive; corrosiveness
- not to refuse to (idiom); not to hesitate to
- to solve (a problem); to resolve (a difficulty); to provide an answer; solution; resolution; answer
- defect; flaw
- to improve; to make better; improvement
- to fill up; to stuff; to fill in a blank space
- to turn defeat into victory (idiom); to turn the tide
- structure; composition; tectonic (geology); CL:個|个[ge4]
- junior high school (abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学[chu1 ji2 zhong1 xue2])
- to have something made to order
- to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc)
- the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism); legacy; mantle
- superfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb; a nuisance to sb; to inconvenience; to tie sb down; long-winded (of writing); also pr. [lei2 zhui5]
- bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame); (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通[wu3 shen2 tong1])
- (TCM) the six hollow organs: gallbladder 膽|胆[dan3], stomach 胃[wei4], large intestine 大腸|大肠[da4 chang2], small intestine 小腸|小肠[xiao3 chang2], triple heater 三焦[san1 jiao1], bladder 膀胱[pang2 guang1]
- to miscalculate; to misjudge
- to run into; to come upon; to meet
- to work hard; to do one's very best; to throw oneself into the task at hand
- sinister; insidious