Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to allocate; to provide; to outfit with
- lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy
- minced meat sauce; (fig.) mincemeat; a person cut to pieces
- words of the deceased; last words of the dying; wisdom of past sages
- race; ethnic group
- hidden; potential; latent
- foundation
- potential; hidden capability
- sinister plot; dirty trick; cheap trick
- sorption (generic term for absorption, adsorption, diffusion, precipitation etc)
- driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
- vast; huge
- a professional
- (in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense; (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
- to do well at; to do a good job
- to divide up the work; division of labor
- lofty
- to compare; to draw a parallel; to match; analogy; metaphor; comparison
- to go wrong; to get into trouble
- to give one's respects; to send a greeting; (fig.) (coll.) to make offensive reference to (somebody dear to the person to whom one is speaking)
- to establish; to build
- to finish work; to complete a project
- to choose; to pick; to sort out; to pick up
- Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
- to volatilize; to vaporize; to evaporate (esp. at ordinary temperatures); (in compound words) volatile
- with rapt attention
- the outside; (attributive) external; exterior; surface
- to farm; to work the land
- half of a lifetime
- precedent
- wealth; money
- to beat and scold
- a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord; hegemon
- to yield results
- to decipher; to decode; to interpret