Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- feet not touching the ground (idiom); to run like the wind
- three-dimensional; solid; stereoscopic
- real; true; honest; really; solid; fruit; seed; definitely
- will; shall; to be going to
- purgatory
- skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5]
- magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower; all the King's horses and all the King's men
- (idiom) to complement one another
- your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific); to erupt; to begin abruptly
- warm; agreeable
- ornament
- to estimate visually; to gauge; visual assessment
- democracy; democratic
- to count down; countdown
- to reassign sb to a different job; to turn around; to change direction; to make a U turn
- ambiguity; several possible meanings
- synchronous; to synchronize; to keep step with
- (pet name for a baby or small child)
- lottery ticket
- one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]; animal from the Chinese zodiac
- upper class
- to study abroad
- bad habit (e.g. nose-picking); petty maneuver; dirty trick; gamesmanship
- to whisper to one another's ear
- to listen (respectfully)
- (bound form) rail; track; course; path
- (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell
- handrail; armrest
- stupid person; ignoramus
- to put one's all into the fight
- home; residence; house
- to tear down; to demolish; to dismantle; to remove
- to open wide; unrestrictedly
- (bound form) remote; out of the way; off-center; eccentric