Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to envelop; to shroud
- difference; peculiar
- the shadow of a human figure; a trace of a person's presence (usu. combined with a negative verb)
- to smell; to sniff sth out; to perceive by smelling
- suspicious; dubious
- flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- acceleration
- at the same time; meanwhile
- expansive; wide; width; thickness
- specter; apparition; ghost
- in the sky; in the air
- to drift; to wave; to float on the waves; to flutter in the wind
- bright
- (measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square")
- outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance
- to input; to throw in; to unload; to put into circulation
- to shine; to illuminate
- to push open (a gate etc); to push away; to reject; to decline
- (fig.) to step into; to enter
- reason; grounds; justification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- empty-handed; unarmed; (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model; (abbr. for 空手道[kong1 shou3 dao4]) karate
- to return; to go back
- to abandon; to discard; to renounce; to dump (sb)
- see 臨陣退縮|临阵退缩[lin2 zhen4 tui4 suo1]
- 供 gòng: 供 gong4: to lay (sacrificial offerings); (bound form) offerings; to confess (Taiwan pr. [gong1]); confession; statement (Taiwan pr. [gong1])供 gōng: 供 gong1: to provide; to supply; to be for (the use or convenience of)
- main entrance; main gate; portal
- (idiom) to greet the eye; to come into view
- praying mat (Buddhism, made of woven cattail)
- old-fashioned square table to seat eight people
- to spread over an area
- infant; baby; CL:個|个[ge4]; lead (Pb)
- 粗 cū: 粗 cu1: (of sth long) wide; thick; (of sth granular) coarse; (of a voice) gruff; (of sb's manner etc) rough; crude; careless; rude粗 cū: 粗 cu1: remote; distant
- candle; wax
- rough (not precise or accurate); cursory
- 数 shǔ: 数 shu3: to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list数 shù: 数 shu4: number; figure; several; a few数 shùo: 数 shuo4: (literary) frequently; repeatedly