Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 生意 shēng yi: 生意 sheng1 yi5: business; CL:筆|笔[bi3]生意 shēng yì: 生意 sheng1 yi4: life force; vitality
- to require a solution; to seek to solve (an equation)
- dawn; rising sun
- very; extremely
- it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately
- plants
- see 白山市[Bai2 shan1 Shi4]
- to sing; ballad; folk song
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke
- poor and lowly
- content with one's situation; to know contentment (hence happiness)
- to lack patience
- master; host; owner; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to devour
- good looks; pretty (e.g. young woman)
- gorgeous; garish and beautiful
- bright; intelligent
- to contribute generously (idiom); help sb generously with money; to give generously to charity
- to subsidize; to provide financial aid; subsidy
- to take an exam; (of an education system) to be exam-oriented
- final wishes of the departed
- to fund; to put money into sth; to invest
- dining hall in a Buddhist temple
- upright; upstanding; honest
- to fawn on; to ingratiate oneself; (literary) to meet face to face
- Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods); Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 the southernmost of the three Kingdoms
- to construct; to build
- capital city
- to open up; to set up; to establish
- (to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds; dutiful; keeping to one's role
- good and honest; kindhearted
- Eastern Jin dynasty 317-420
- Santalum album; square wooden pillar
- Wu county in Jiangsu
- cottage; hut
- to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]