Vocabulary: 繁花
- small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps; (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么[shen2 me5])
- last third of the month
- see 三伏[san1 fu2]
- shady
- to regard face as all-important; to consider loss of face unthinkable
- to endure; to suffer; hardships; torments; a hard time; a nuisance
- British-style; English-style
- wool; fleece
- stockings
- neat and tidy
- Christmas time; Christmas season; Christmas
- fur clothing
- to stew
- (King) Sihanouk (of Cambodia)
- (loanword) sirloin
- steak
- onion (Allium cepa); bulb onion
- lunch; Chinese meal; Chinese food; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4]
- the world; this world; the world of the living
- Jade Emperor
- pork belly; streaky pork
- hostage
- to cut into pieces
- to feed in; to load (raw material, supplies, fuel etc); to supply; fortified (with added material)
- 腌 ā: 腌 a1: used in 腌臢|腌臜[a1 za1]; Taiwan pr. [ang1]腌 yān: 腌 yan1: to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat); to marinate
- fragrant; delicious
- glutinous rice flour
- cosmetics
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- 扒 bā: 扒 ba1: to peel; to skin; to tear; to pull down; to cling to (sth on which one is climbing); to dig扒 pá: 扒 pa2: to rake up; to steal; to braise; to crawl
- to gobble up; to gorge oneself on (food)
- to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable); (of a dish) to go well with rice
- Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
- to eat plain rice; (fig.) to eat and not pay for it; to sponge off others; to freeload
- to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)