Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- (onom.) clink of jewels; exquisite; detailed and fine; clever; nimble
- bluestone; limestone (colloquial)
- goblet; bottle; wine-jar
- one's bosom (the seat of emotions); breast; broad-minded and open; to think about; to cherish
- geomancy
- somewhere
- feng shui; geomancy
- whatever; no matter what (who, how etc); regardless of; not to discuss
- prophecy; prophetic remark
- dignified; composed
- desirable; worth having; (of a suggestion etc) commendable; worthy
- greasy; soft; unctuous; intimate; tired of
- facial expression of good fortune; joyous and contented look
- rocky
- disaster; misfortune; calamity
- see 玉環市|玉环市[Yu4 huan2 Shi4]
- see 福安市[Fu2 an1 Shi4]
- fortieth year J4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1963 or 2023
- appearance; facial features; look
- Jinshan suburban district of Shanghai; Jinshan or Chinshan township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- shortsighted; nearsighted; myopia
- ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin
- a city wall
- artificial; manpower; manual work
- 奇 jī: 奇 ji1: odd (number)奇 qí: 奇 qi2: strange; odd; weird; wonderful; surprisingly; unusually
- to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- Langyuan paradise, home of the immortals in verse and legends
- the Jade lake on Mount Kunlun, residence of Xi Wangmu 西王母
- bejeweled jade palace (idiom); sumptuous dwelling
- to merge together (idiom); to unify disparate elements into one whole
- to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together; string of 1000 cash
- along; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on; to trim (a border with braid, tape etc); border; edge
- to sew; to stitch together; to combine; to link; to connect; to put words together; to compose; to embellish
- stupid
- outstanding; peerless; beyond compare
- to meet the eye; eye-catching; conspicuous
- far-sighted; astute