Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- bullock; cow
- to castrate; fig. to emasculate
- bull
- lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4]
- to start; to launch; to unleash; to mobilize; to arouse
- peasant uprising; peasant revolt
- to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)
- trade; profession; industry; business
- with all of one's heart
- to fight; to combat; to seize; (of heart) to beat
- mountain range
- oppose; to attack
- to espy; to spot
- to bare one's arms (in agitation)
- to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
- pleased
- to resume one's old trade (idiom)
- artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort
- derogatory sense; negative connotation
- fishing net; fishnet
- to lay; to spread out
- fishes
- place above (it); upper part (of it)
- timely; at the right time; promptly; without delay
- to raise; to ascend
- dip net
- to dredge up; to scoop up from the water; to fish for; to gain (by improper means)
- fish catch
- fine (texture); meticulous; careful; detailed
- dig (a pond); stagnant water
- to draw water
- cord; string; rope; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2]
- porter for a palanquin
- in common usage
- head ornament
- similar; analogous
- now; nowadays; modern
- earpick; curette
- bind up; string together