Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- free and unfettered
- face-to-face meeting; an interview
- to help to resolve a dispute; to smooth things over
- to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
- to shout; to bellow one's grievances
- extremely
- (idiom) filthy speech; obscenities
- palm of the hand; classifier: slap
- to cross over; to transcend; to cover distance; to overcome; to rise above
- evil intent; malice
- to act in a play; to put on a play
- unintentionally; not in the mood to
- to carve; carved words; to agree; a contract; a deed
- season
- nearing death; on the point of demise; approaching extinction
- (idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless
- to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold
- the people
- too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event.
- wine cup
- knight; cavalier; (Tw) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
- free; unrestrained; to inundate
- to dispatch; to send out goods
- (idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment); (fig.) to tear apart; to utterly destroy; to brutally dismember
- electric light; CL:盞|盏[zhan3]
- to set up an electric circuit; to electrify; to switch on; to be connected to an electricity grid; open telegram
- vast; extensive
- grassland; prairie; CL:片[pian4]
- strand; thread; detailed; in detail; classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)
- looking or feeling sickly
- as different as can be (idiom); poles apart
- frequency
- (drawing and painting) perspective; (medicine) to perform fluoroscopy; to examine by X-ray; (fig.) to take a penetrating look at sth; to gain insight
- peaceful; quiet; tranquil; purified of defiling illusion (Buddhism)
- may I offer a bit of advice
- (loanword) jelly; gel
- many times; on more than one occasion
- to show off; to try to be brave
- candlelight; candlelit (vigil etc); candela, unit of luminous intensity (cd)