Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to rope in; fig. to involve sb; to entice
- to use up; to exhaust; to probe to the bottom; limit; end
- golden-bright and dazzling
- to despise; to have contempt for
- very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely
- fox
- sensitive; tactful
- to line up; to stand in line; (fig.) to take sides; to side with sb; to align oneself with a faction
- to appear before (one's eyes); to come to (one's mind)
- eyes (in literature); eyesight
- a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration; to be struck by a brainwave
- to tear to shreds
- (idiom) self-knowledge
- see 手心[shou3 xin1]
- destructive
- (dialect) locust; grasshopper
- (idiom) to bully intolerably
- lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains; give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
- to burst forth
- to give up; to abandon (a goal etc); to let sth go; forget it; let the matter drop
- independent; self-reliant; self-sustaining; to stand on one's own feet; to support oneself
- (of an airplane, ship, vehicle etc) to continue a journey without refueling; (of an electronic device, battery etc) to run before needing to be recharged
- to excavate; to explore; (fig.) to unearth; to tap into
- (bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
- magical object; object symbolic of imperial power; fine weapon; very useful tool
- devoid of conscience (idiom); utterly heartless
- for a long time now; long since
- to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated
- needed; to come in useful
- surname Yan
- to show up; present (at the scene)
- couldn't be better; ideal; wonderful
- to clarify; to fully understand
- everyone; every person