Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to watch from the sidelines
- handling a butcher's cleaver with ease (idiom); to do sth skillfully and easily
- cliff; rock
- to fight at close quarters; to fight tooth and nail
- (idiom) things are very different now; times have changed
- 丽 lì: 丽 li4: beautiful丽 Lí: 丽 Li2: Korea
- 梅 Méi: 梅 Mei2: surname Mei梅 méi: 梅 mei2: plum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
- to advise against; to dissuade
- to suffer in silence; to endure hardship or injustice without complaint; to swallow one's grievances
- to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- ferocious; murderous-looking
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
- to fly into a rage; to rage violently
- lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom); good preparation is the key to success; to be well prepared
- starting point
- to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
- periodic; periodicity (math); cyclicity
- square meter (abbr. for 平方米[ping2 fang1 mi3])
- to stroll
- to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom); in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
- not proper; inappropriate
- first half of the night (from nightfall to midnight)
- to hold a conversation; to talk over the telephone; phone call
- public phone; CL:部[bu4]
- (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department
- one kind of; one type of
- light; radiance; (fig.) bright (prospects etc); openhearted
- a way out; a way to retreat; leeway
- (idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle
- mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
- to have a holiday or vacation