Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- three, set five remove two (abacus rule); efficiently; quickly and easily
- to have real skill; to know one's stuff
- to have a low opinion of
- a torment; a trial; tribulation; a cross (to bear); well-tried
- inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash
- to drip; to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc); (bound form) a drop (of liquid); classifier for drops of liquid
- to cry out; to bark out a sound
- to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied; to degenerate; to submerge
- irreversible
- sweet; pleasant; happy
- Ueno, district in Taitō Ward, Tokyo; Ueno (Japanese surname)
- free and easy (idiom); carefree; leisurely
- indirectly acquired; second-hand (information, equipment etc); assistant
- to be deficient in; lapse; deficiency
- secret trouble; sorrow; difficulties
- innate talent; gift; flair; native resource; dowry
- bright; intelligent
- stupid; slow-witted
- to tame; tame; docile
- 正统 zhèng tǒng: 正统 zheng4 tong3: orthodoxy; tradition; orthodox; traditional; principles of dynastic succession; (of an heir) legitimate正统 Zhèng tǒng: 正统 Zheng4 tong3: Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen 朱祁鎮|朱祁镇[Zhu1 Qi2 zhen4] (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, temple name Yingzong 英宗[Ying1 zong1]
- appropriate to the occasion; fitting
- to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
- one's elders; older generation
- the younger generation; those who come after
- to announce publicly; to publish; to make known; to disclose
- peach
- layered; structured; made up of distinct parts
- to tease
- 田 tián: 田 tian2: field; farm; CL:片[pian4]田 Tián: 田 Tian2: surname Tian
- one day; sometime in the future
- (idiom) priceless treasure
- to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence
- to start from scratch