Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- entrance door; to enter a door; to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
- to grab
- pregnancy; gestation
- to wrap; to package (goods etc); packaging; packing materials; (fig.) to present attractively; to craft an image; to package (sb or sth)
- unaccomplished; mediocre; feckless
- to strip naked; to strip nude; (coll.) to find oneself a partner
- completely focused; free of distractions
- features, face (esp. derogatorily); look; appearance; countenance
- to fall deeper and deeper (in debt, in love etc)
- heartfelt wish; inner voice; aspiration
- to mark out; to tag; to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to; to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin)
- the teeming world; the world of sensual pleasures
- lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking; debauched and corrupt environment
- wine and women; color of wine; drunken expression
- 3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger; ancient Chinese compass point: 60°
- upper garment
- to pile up; to stack
- to stagger (times)
- to mess up; to put into disorder; to meddle with; to confuse
- fresh and cool; relaxed
- skeleton of the dead
- (of enemy forces) to invade; to attack
- to upload
- to worry; to be anxious
- (idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
- to climb; to pull oneself up; to clamber; to scale; fig. to forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger
- to get a footing
- riddle; conundrum; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- density; concentration
- uphill; upslope; to move upwards; to climb a slope
- to shake hands
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]; Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠[Qi1 long2 zhu1]
- not sure; maybe