Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- infatuation
- poor; impoverished
- each one individually; each and every
- Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning
- to live in seclusion
- to be published; to come out
- ostentation; a show of extravagance; grand style; red tape
- peasant; farmer
- dark; black; suntanned
- conical bamboo hat
- to judge sb by appearances (idiom)
- indirect
- young guy; lad; youngster; CL:個|个[ge4]
- lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom); fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent; to be blind to the fact
- 烟丝 yān sī: 烟丝 yan1 si1: loose tobacco; fine-cut tobacco; (literary) wisp of smoke; thin strand of smoke烟丝 yān sī: 烟丝 yan1 si1: loose tobacco; fine-cut tobacco
- to bow with hands held in front
- unknown number; (fig.) an unknown; an uncertainty
- physique; build
- simple home-style meal; common occurrence; nothing out of the ordinary
- vegetables
- food expenses; board expenses; meals (cost)
- morality; righteousness and justice
- to reach great heights (in technical skills or scholastic achievements)
- orange (color)
- to publish books
- half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb
- idea; concept; philosophy; theory
- college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試|普通高等学校招生全国统一考试[Pu3 tong1 Gao1 deng3 Xue2 xiao4 Zhao1 sheng1 Quan2 guo2 Tong3 yi1 Kao3 shi4]); (Tw) entrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公務人員高等考試|公务人员高等考试)
- 鞠 Jū: 鞠 Ju1: surname Ju鞠 jū: 鞠 ju1: to incline (one's torso); to bow; leather ball used in ancient times; (literary) to bring up; to rear; Taiwan pr. [ju2]
- (literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself; personally
- imprint; trace