Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- sickle
- to act as intermediary; to link; intermediate; inter-; agency; agent
- to avoid suffering; to prevent (sth bad); to protect against (damage); immunity (from prosecution); freedom (from pain, damage etc); exempt from punishment
- to display shockingly bad behavior; to behave atrociously
- 门道 mén dào: 门道 men2 dao4: doorway; gateway门道 mén dao: 门道 men2 dao5: the way to do sth; knack
- zipper
- to oppose; to set sth against; to be antagonistic to; antithetical; relative opposite; opposing; diametrical
- to compare
- to reveal one's talent (idiom)
- a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- to change money; to sell
- to have a competition; to measure with one's hand or arm; to make a gesture of measuring
- reinforcement; back-up; supporting force
- to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither
- palmistry; features of a palm (in palmistry)
- lethal point (acupuncture); vulnerable spot; Achilles' heel
- to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb; to stumble; to fall down
- 尽可能 jǐn kě néng: 尽可能 jin3 ke3 neng2: as far as possible; to the best of one's ability尽可能 jìn kě néng: 尽可能 jin4 ke3 neng2: see 儘可能|尽可能[jin3 ke3 neng2]
- Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius; (fig.) a mastermind
- great merit; great service
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
- to sell; to market; sales (representative, agreement etc)
- covered in dust; dusty; lying unused for a long time
- to wait for an opportunity; to watch for one's chance
- to split open; to dehisce (of fruit or cotton bolls, to split open)
- ominous; inauspicious
- (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load; load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
- to strive; to struggle
- to dry over a stove
- slouch; stoop; poor posture
- wooden bench or stool; CL:張|张[zhang1],條|条[tiao2]
- 赵 zhào: 赵 zhao4: to surpass (old)赵 Zhào: 赵 Zhao4: surname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
- to wait for a long time