Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to work to no avail (idiom)
- to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- headquarters; base camp
- to chat; casual conversation
- (computing) to chat privately; private chat
- downhill road; (fig.) downhill path
- (idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable
- skin cast off during molting; exuvia; to pupate; to molt; to slough; to cast off an old skin or shell
- to strangle; to throttle
- (of a seed) to germinate; (of a plant) to sprout; to bud; sprout; bud; (also used figuratively)
- (idiom) unable to withstand a single blow; to collapse at the first blow
- hotel; CL:家[jia1]
- (theater) prop; paraphernalia; (gaming) item; artifact
- stable; steady; firm; to stabilize
- things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom)
- dining hall; cafeteria; CL:個|个[ge4],間|间[jian1]
- to occupy by force; to seize; to dominate
- to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不[bu4] or 只[zhi3] or 何[he2] etc) to need; to require; to take
- bitter; painful; deeply distressed
- firm; unyielding; strong-willed
- matter of life and death
- to buy frenetically; to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc)
- odds of success; stratagem that ensures success; to be sure of success
- (idiom) to be fired up; to have one's blood racing; to be burning (with excitement, passion, anger etc)
- ugly; repulsive
- tongue-twister
- popularization of science (abbr. for 科學普及|科学普及[ke1 xue2 pu3 ji2]); (attributive) popular science; (coll.) to explain in layperson's terms
- fashion; fad; fashionable
- fund
- ample scope for abilities; favorable position for the use of one's skills (idiom)