Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to recover completely (from illness or injury)
- board; plank; bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
- languid; indolent
- vapor
- what one has learned (through experience, reading etc); knowledge; insight; understanding; tips; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- pass; gateway; (fig.) juncture
- assistant; helper
- (idiom) unprecedented in history
- to loot; to ransack; to pillage
- usual; customary
- business; professional work; service; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- difference; discrepancy
- father; dad; pa; papa
- to itch; to tickle
- to cover up; to hide; to conceal
- village; hamlet
- Buddhism; Buddhist
- junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs
- (idiom) untainted by even a speck of dust; spotlessly clean; (of a person) honest; incorruptible
- person; figure; public figure
- paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- ceramic tile
- to hesitate; (literary) to pace back and forth; (literary) self-satisfied
- to write (by hand); to practice calligraphy
- to kill (in hunting)
- wide; broad; extensive; widespread
- to be limited to; to be confined to
- origin; root (cause)
- to find out; to ascertain; to get to the bottom of; to clarify
- mistake; error; mishap
- to be deeply in (trouble, debt etc); deep set (eyes)
- reliability
- fast and abundant (news); clever; effective
- to talk big; to brag; to shoot off one's mouth; (dialect) to chat idly
- to impart; to pass on; to teach
- fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- to shift sth with a crowbar etc; (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
- neighbor
- to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret; to let the cat out of the bag
- (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall; (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
- fortune telling
- to fall ill; to contract a disease
- talking and laughing; to jest; cheerful and lively
- head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child