Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- character
- to satisfy rival demands (idiom); to get the best of both worlds; to have it both ways; to have one's cake and eat it too
- clay figurine
- kindhearted person; good Samaritan
- slip of the tongue; indiscretion; to blurt out a secret
- 燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- to dictate; to recount orally
- by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year
- (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
- to gather; to congregate; to aggregate
- to bury a corpse; to be buried; (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc)
- (usu. of people) difficult; demanding; troublesome; unreasonable; hard to deal with
- surface layer
- violent; fierce
- to threaten; to blackmail
- battle line; battlefront; front
- to watch sb closely; to breathe down sb's neck; to mark (sports)
- to rupture; to burst; to explode
- evil smell; resentment; unpleasant manner
- contempt; contemptuous; to despise; to scorn; scornful
- whole sky
- blind date; arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. [xiang4 qin1]); to be deeply attached to each other
- lung capacity; lung power; boldness; confidence; self-assurance; vigor
- to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life
- 林 lín: 林 lin2: (bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people); (bound form) a collection (of similar things)林 Lín: 林 Lin2: surname Lin; Japanese surname Hayashi
- levelheadedness; calmness; equanimity
- nature; characteristic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to agree (to do sth); to promise
- to transmit; to lead; to guide; to conduct; to direct