Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- equivalent to
- (sports) home ground; home field; (sports) home game; main venue (for a festival etc)
- natural
- superiority; dominance; advantage
- to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly; luckily; fortunately; thanks to; (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
- to agree; to consent; to approve
- plan; idea; decision; CL:個|个[ge4]; Beijing pr. [zhu2 yi5]
- fine hair on the human body
- to stand tall; to tower aloft
- to join forces; to give full cooperation
- to treat; treatment
- fair; impartial
- to divide evenly; to bisect (geometry); deuce (tennis); tied score
- weak; in poor health
- to change; to switch; to convert; to transform
- desire
- to scatter; to disperse; to distribute
- to regain; to retake; to take back; to withdraw; to revoke
- to weaken; to diminish
- to lie down
- to sigh; to exclaim
- to harm sb; to inflict suffering; to victimize; pernicious
- to eliminate
- 省 shěng: 省 sheng3: to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)省 xǐng: 省 xing3: (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
- disaster; harm; scourge; bad person; to damage; to harm; to wreck
- the secular world
- to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to
- lit. like a little bird relying on people (idiom); fig. cute and helpless-looking
- to turn a blind eye to
- to purse; to pucker (up)
- 清 qīng: 清 qing1: (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts)清 Qīng: 清 Qing1: Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911); surname Qing
- to ask sb a question; question
- (idiom) anxious; in turmoil
- (bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand
- bitterly disappointed; frightened
- to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over
- 调 diào: 调 diao4: to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody调 tiáo: 调 tiao2: to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend; to suit well; to adjust; to regulate; to season (food); to provoke; to incite
- next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time
- fixed-line phone; landline; private plane
- incoming telephone call (or telegram); to phone in; to send in a telegram; to have an instant attraction to sb; (of electricity, after an outage) to come back