Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to lose to (sb); to be outdone by
- altogether; in sum; in all; in total
- lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom); shocking; horrible to see; a ghastly sight
- to cancel; to annul; to deregister; (accounting) to write off
- to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence
- lake
- willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
- marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market
- to continue; to replenish
- lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience
- street; CL:條|条[tiao2]; subdistrict; residential district
- (loanword) neon lights
- river bank
- to cross; to intersect; to overlap
- 天涯海角 Tiān yá Hǎi jiǎo: 天涯海角 Tian1 ya2 Hai3 jiao3: Tianya Haijiao, tourism area on the south coast of Hainan, 24 km west of Sanya 三亞|三亚[San1 ya4]天涯海角 tiān yá hǎi jiǎo: 天涯海角 tian1 ya2 hai3 jiao3: the ends of the earth; separated worlds apart
- to beat (with a stick or one's fist); to thump; to pound
- church; chapel; CL:座[zuo4],所[suo3],間|间[jian1]
- Jesus
- cross; crucifix; yoke one has to endure
- godfather
- leather shoes
- 编制 biān zhì: 编制 bian1 zhi4: to establish (a unit or department); authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)编制 biān zhì: 编制 bian1 zhi4: to weave; to plait; to compile; to put together (a lesson plan, budget etc)
- lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom); fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support
- every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened
- to sneak in; to infiltrate; to be piercingly painful; to be unbearable (of pain, itch etc)
- Catholic or Orthodox priest; Father (title of address)
- to fabricate; to make sth up; invented
- to spread falsehoods; to increasingly distort the truth; to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
- brain death
- sorcery
- jug (earthenware with a big belly and a small opening)
- objection; dissent
- 下水 xià shǔi: 下水 xia4 shui3: downstream; to go into the water; to put into water; to launch (a ship); fig. to fall into bad ways; to lead astray; to go to pot下水 xià shui: 下水 xia4 shui5: offal; viscera; tripe
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- 柴 Chái: 柴 Chai2: surname Chai柴 chái: 柴 chai2: firewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
- dried out; wizened; shriveled
- to welcome a guest; to entertain a customer (of prostitute)
- a matter that gnaws at one's mind; preoccupation; sore point; rancor
- to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster