Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to rub lightly; to move slowly; to dawdle; to dillydally; to pester; to nag
- profit; gain; to make profits
- darling; baby
- an actor's lines; dialogue; Taiwanese word
- hunting dog; hound; (fig.) running dog; lackey
- (honorific) to accompany; to keep sb company
- to play mahjong or cards
- to deposit money (in a bank etc); bank savings; bank deposit
- 糊 hū: 糊 hu1: to smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. [hu2]糊 hù: 糊 hu4: paste; cream糊 hú: 糊 hu2: to paste; to glue; blurry; unclear; muddled; (esp. of food) scorched; burnt; paste; mush; thick gruel糊 hú: 糊 hu2: congee; (in 糊口[hu2 kou3]) to feed oneself
- to strut; swaggering
- paper tiger
- machine gun
- rifle; CL:把[ba3],枝[zhi1]
- to do sth when least expected (idiom); to catch sb off guard
- to bring disaster on oneself
- to park (a car etc); to moor (a boat etc); to leave sth (in a place)
- washing machine; washer; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- jar; pitcher; pot
- to invent and innovate; inventions and innovations
- multi- (faceted, cultural, ethnic etc)
- orange
- to decline; to fall; to drop; to falter; a decline; recession (in economics)
- to set on fire; to commit arson; to create a disturbance
- thick smoke
- series; set
- machine tool; a lathe; CL:張|张[zhang1]
- severed limb
- head; boss; chief
- not to accept sth; to want to have sth overruled or changed; to refuse to obey or comply; to refuse to accept as final; to remain unconvinced by; not to give in to
- fold; crease; wrinkle; (geology) fold
- to take by the arm and assist
- ancient book; old book
- domain; sphere; field; territory; area
- to be obsessed with sth; to go overboard; (Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation