Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- billows; great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
- peak; summit; fig. high point; masterpiece
- to acknowledge allegiance to (some regime); to serve
- to found a state; to open a closed country
- to congratulate; congratulations; CL:個|个[ge4]
- lazily
- (literary) to blaspheme; to desecrate; to profane
- Taoyuan city and county in Taiwan
- holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc); center of historic interest
- effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea; elixir
- medicinal herb (genus Mesona); grass jelly
- mistake; fault; responsibility (for a fault)
- lit. one morning and one evening (idiom); fig. in a short period of time; overnight
- (idiom) to be faced with a formidable enemy
- sense of belonging
- goldfish
- (idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game)
- lasting; enduring; persistent; permanent; protracted; endurance; persistence; to last long
- flexible; adaptable
- to esteem; to admire
- (of a person) valiant and formidable-looking; to carry oneself tall
- double
- vastly different; poles apart
- shovel; spade; trowel; spatula (kitchen utensil); CL:把[ba3]
- hardware; ironware
- to guard a pass; to check on sth
- to make a fool of oneself
- to blend into one another; to blend together well
- to attack and defend (usu. in reference to opposing sides, but can be one party playing both roles)
- (computing) to reinstall
- community; colony
- companion; comrade; fellow