Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to befall; to be imminent
- to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
- self-confidence
- (lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control; (dialect) affecting shyness; coy; (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten
- to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
- to worry helplessly
- an illiterate; sb who has blurred vision; sb who is willfully blind
- glimmer
- reluctant to admit a mistake
- to embezzle; to swallow up; to engulf
- only; merely; just
- flame
- male; staminate; grand; imposing; powerful; mighty; person or state having great power and influence
- lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom); fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid
- high temperature
- collision; crash; to crash together; to collide with; to bump into
- feeling of powerlessness; sense of helplessness
- mature reflection; after careful deliberations
- to muster large forces; to get a great number of people involved (in carrying out some task)
- plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure; makeshift stratagem; interim step
- to describe; to put into words
- to chant; to recite; verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems); (literary) to lament; to groan; (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects; (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2]) (cf. 猱[nao2], wide vibrato)
- (archaic) wooden or metal token of authority; (fig.) decree; directive; (computing) token
- 叶 xié: 叶 xie2: to be in harmony叶 yè: 叶 ye4: leaf; page; lobe; (historical) period; classifier for small boats叶 Yè: 叶 Ye4: surname Ye
- (entomology) nymph
- to unleash one's power; (of an animal) to go on a rampage; (of a typhoon, earthquake etc) to wreak havoc; (of a figure of authority) to erupt in anger; to assert one's dominance
- old name for China; Cathay
- to incite trouble; to stir up havoc
- of undetermined status; unregulated
- to impede; to obstruct; to hold back
- story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide
- 尾 yǐ: 尾 yi3: horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc尾 wěi: 尾 wei3: tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish
- occupation; profession; vocation; professional