Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- 门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)
- light as a feather
- to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success)
- energy
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- finger; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- power switch; gas valve; to open the city (or frontier) gate; to open and close; to switch on and off
- (onom.) creak; crunch
- sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds
- outside; excluding
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- a tiny bit
- in succession; one after another; continuously
- quiet; peaceful; calm
- to have; to possess
- to fix; to fasten; to set rigidly in place; fixed; set; regular
- locus; orbit; trajectory; track
- machine; CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4],個|个[ge4]
- to arise abruptly; to arrive suddenly; happening suddenly
- to break; to smash
- since (used after a specified time or event)
- suddenly; abruptly
- nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised
- 背着 bèi zhe: 背着 bei4 zhe5: turning one's back to (sth or sb); keeping sth secret from (sb); keeping (one's hands) behind one's back背着 bēi zhe: 背着 bei1 zhe5: carrying on one's back
- schoolbag; satchel; bookbag; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- middle-school student; high school student
- to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote
- to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- paint; lacquer; CL:道[dao4]; to paint (furniture, walls etc)
- rank or step; stairs
- bouncing and vivacious
- 戴 dài: 戴 dai4: to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support戴 Dài: 戴 Dai4: surname Dai
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- without the slightest hesitation
- to arrive; to come
- eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
- to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- as one wishes; according to one's wishes; at will; voluntary; conscious
- to respond; response
- to run into; to meet (unexpectedly); to bump into