Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom); fig. to be practical and realistic
- answer to a riddle
- clear spring
- to know the score (idiom); to be well aware of the situation
- to appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)
- to take root
- honest
- delicate; graceful
- to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
- one by one; in turn
- not stint; not spare; not hesitate (to do sth); not scruple (to do sth)
- capital (economics)
- inescapable net (idiom); trap; dragnet
- to redouble a siege
- bulldozer
- to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc)
- horsepower
- not to fight back; to take it lying down; to show weakness; to show one's softer side
- ashamed; embarrassed; not having the face (to meet people); not daring (out of shame)
- 一哄而散 yī hōng ér sàn: 一哄而散 yi1 hong1 er2 san4: to disperse in confusion (idiom)一哄而散 yī hòng ér sàn: 一哄而散 yi1 hong4 er2 san4: see 一哄而散[yi1 hong1 er2 san4]
- desperate getaway (from a battlefield); to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
- to increase sharply; to rise dramatically
- firm; firmly; hard; stable
- to take care of (sb's health); to nurse
- not the only; not merely; not simply
- cozy; snug
- to have or have not; surplus and shortfall; tangible and intangible; corporeal and incorporeal
- creek; stream; brook
- Dragon King (mythology)
- good news; glad tidings; gospel
- to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel); to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit); closed-loop
- to confuse one thing with another (idiom); to muddle
- lit. to fix one's eyes on sth like a tiger watching its prey (idiom); fig. to eye covetously
- a trick; an ingenious method; know-how; the knack (of doing sth)
- to hesitate
- to polish; to burnish; to shine