Vocabulary: 繁花
- employee number
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- to tell anybody one happens to meet
- carry to the utmost; to cut
- countless changes; constant permutation
- grade; class; quality; level
- to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
- maggot
- happy; cheerful
- imbecile; sentimental; stupid; foolish; silly
- a basket
- see 黃梅縣|黄梅县[Huang2 mei2 Xian4]
- mat woven from bamboo strips
- electric fan; CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2]
- finger; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- dark green
- gramophone; record player
- young married woman
- infatuated; obsessed
- heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc); deeply moving
- 茹 rú: 茹 ru2: to eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell; vegetables; roots (inextricably attached to the plant)茹 Rú: 茹 Ru2: surname Ru
- to pursue one's studies; to attend school; to seek knowledge
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- to offer advice, guidance, or feedback
- dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis; to die hard (idiom); to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)
- suitable; appropriate
- birdcage
- deep at night
- local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧[Yue4 ju4], Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧[Chuan1 ju4], Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧[Yu4 ju4] etc
- to regard as the foremost; to name as a prime example; to implement for the first time
- winter and summer
- aria (in opera)
- ridge between fields; crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field; grave mound
- mountain top
- (esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken
- winding; (fig.) complicated
- to reach (a place) directly; (transportation) to reach the destination without changing service or without stopping; (of a train, flight etc) direct; nonstop
- much obliged; thank you; to ask advice; (ironically or humorously) to experience; to taste