Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- chicken rib; (fig.) sth of little value yet hard to discard
- self-protection; to defend oneself
- to collapse
- sin; offense
- to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
- to illuminate; to turn on the lights; to light (a blaze)
- hot blood; warm-blooded (animal); endothermic (physiology)
- delicious; delicious food; delicacy
- incurable disease
- (idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years
- rib; CL:根[gen1]
- ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead
- to take upon oneself; to assume
- robust; sturdy
- high tech; high technology
- gene (loanword)
- deviant path; evil ways
- bald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc)
- leaf (CL:片[pian4]); (slang) marijuana
- radiation
- tropical rain forest
- (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs)
- trafficker; dealer; monger; peddler
- 温 wēn: 温 wen1: warm; lukewarm; to warm up; (bound form) temperature; (bound form) mild; soft; tender; to review (a lesson etc); (TCM) fever温 Wēn: 温 Wen1: surname Wen
- spectacles; eyeglasses; CL:副[fu4]
- refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle
- to request sb to do sth; please!
- to secrete; secretion
- light source
- living body; live specimen
- bulletproof vest
- to invent; an invention; CL:個|个[ge4]
- explosive; blasting agent; dynamite
- to serve in the army; to be a soldier
- to adjust; to regulate; to harmonize; to reconcile (accountancy etc)
- to be on the verge of saying what is on one's mind
- (idiom) evenly matched
- at all times and in all places (idiom)
- to live together (in a large group or flock)
- to found; to establish