Vocabulary: 繁花
- ambition; goal; ideal; aspiration
- far-reaching; profound and long-lasting
- (coll.) maybe; perhaps
- underground; subterranean; covert
- banker
- see 黃埔區|黄埔区[Huang2 pu3 Qu1]
- to feign; to pretend
- connector; joint; coupling; (coll.) to contact; to get in touch with; to have knowledge of; to be familiar with
- military police corps
- tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse)
- to be willing; to be satisfied
- sentence; penalty; punishment
- (dialect) to boast; to brag; (onom.) sound of hitting sth
- to come by; to obtain through some means
- rule; regulation; regular; orderly; fixed
- (idiom) genuine; sincere; wholehearted
- demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal
- 行头 háng tóu: 行头 hang2 tou2: team leader (archaic); shopkeeper (archaic)行头 xíng tou: 行头 xing2 tou5: a person's clothing; outfit; actor's costume
- overnight; of the previous day
- to be successful in business; professional success
- to sum up; to conclude; summary; résumé; CL:個|个[ge4]
- having sound and color (idiom); vivid; dazzling
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- expression of opinion; views; remarks; arguments
- Hermès (brand)
- brooch
- to flee abroad; to run away; to desert; outflow
- hereafter; henceforth; in the future; from now on
- duty; responsibility; to reproach; to blame
- lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); both funny and extremely embarrassing; between laughter and tears
- to welcome; to greet
- publishing house
- to have exclusive selling rights; to be the sole agent for a production unit or firm
- hardcover (book); elaborately packaged; opposite: 簡裝|简装[jian3 zhuang1]
- (publishing industry) total cover price of all books in an edition