Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to shield; to harbor; to cover up
- to subdue; to force to capitulate; to reduce to submission; to soothe
- troops; subordinates; (honorific appellation for a general)
- flesh
- to save bit by bit; to accumulate
- to take root
- no less than; not inferior to
- systemic problem (sometimes refers specifically to corrupt practices)
- to take back (forcibly); to recapture; to win back
- (bound form) vast; expansive; (bound form) to restore; to recover
- to heal oneself; to repair itself; self-healing
- World War I (1914–1918)
- in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally
- period; cycle
- rancor; enmity; hatred resulting from grievances
- to plot against
- potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆[Meng4 po2] before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
- concerted action; to collude (in dishonesty)
- flat and smooth
- to consider (a cogent point) (usu. used as an imperative – "Think about it: ...")
- five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心[xin1], liver 肝[gan1], spleen 脾[pi2], lungs 肺[fei4] and kidneys 腎|肾[shen4]
- baptism (lit. or fig.)
- white mouse; lab mouse; lab rat; (fig.) human guinea pig
- property; belongings
- to duel; a duel; decisive struggle
- to expect; to anticipate
- one by one; one after another
- (Tw) (coll.) to be driven crazy (with frustration, stress, anger etc); to tear one's hair out; to freak out
- to penalize; to punish
- mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate
- motive power; (fig.) motivation; impetus
- to dominate; to control; to subdue; to crush