Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- friendship; camaraderie
- surname Qin; Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]; short name for 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- fabric; cloth; material (for making clothing, curtains etc)
- an empty stomach
- hunger; starvation; famine
- to flow into; inflow
- foreign country
- flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀圓|银圆; silver dollar
- commonly referred to as; common term
- debt; liability; amount due; indebtedness
- to recover (from an illness)
- to light a fire for cooking
- to cook
- to ask for help; to ask a favor; to recruit talented people
- 伯 bǎi: 伯 bai3: one hundred (old)伯 bó: 伯 bo2: father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- to deliver
- name card; business card
- coffin; CL:具[ju4],口[kou3]
- to park (a car etc); to moor (a boat etc); to leave sth (in a place)
- soul; spirit
- demon; fiend
- to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- Daoist priest
- disaster
- to live in seclusion
- 孤山 Gū Shān: 孤山 Gu1 Shan1: Solitary Hill, located in West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province孤山 gū shān: 孤山 gu1 shan1: isolated peak
- to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
- to raise; to rear
- red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)
- noble and virtuous; aloof from politics and material pursuits
- end of the year
- beginning of the year
- to stop; to halt; to cease
- need not
- hesitancy; indecision; to waver
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- 祭 Zhài: 祭 Zhai4: surname Zhai祭 jì: 祭 ji4: to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors); (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic); (bound form) ceremony; (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival
- to keep watch beside a coffin; to observe a period of mourning