Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- several thousand
- grain; food; provisions; agricultural tax paid in grain
- at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force)
- (literary) not; used in transliteration
- to rinse one's mouth; to gargle
- to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc); (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc)
- see 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4]
- Daming Lake in Jinan 濟南|济南[Ji3 nan2], Shandong
- to go boating
- (bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
- subterranean; underground
- (bound form) to gallop; to prance; (bound form) to soar; to hover; to make room; to clear out; to vacate; (verb suffix indicating repeated action)
- Chihshang or Chihshang township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
- 吕 lǚ: 吕 lu:3: pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system吕 Lǚ: 吕 Lu:3: surname Lü
- more than; greater than
- to taste tea; to sip tea
- see 萊陽市|莱阳市[Lai2 yang2 Shi4]
- fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
- (lit. and fig.) mirage
- not to have access; beyond one's authority or capability; sth one has no way of doing
- beautiful
- reeds of a panpipe
- savage; furious
- affairs of life; things of the world
- limited; finite
- to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid; to carry weight; to regard as; to consider (to be ...)
- to be busy rushing about; to bustle about
- ordinary; commonplace; busy; bustling about
- 荣 Róng: 荣 Rong2: surname Rong荣 róng: 荣 rong2: glory; honor; thriving
- (of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring; (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds
- to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score; not many; only a few
- gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits
- bored; boring; senseless
- to boast; to blow one's own horn
- small bird; young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick); (fig.) penis (kiddie term); (golf) birdie
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately