Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- hair worn in a bun or coil
- function; capability
- deep black
- to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
- stool; small seat
- as the proverb says; as they say...
- (idiom) young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears
- don't!; must not
- the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements; (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
- to become civilized; to be open-minded; (of ice) to thaw
- general mood; atmosphere; common practice
- see 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- (a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- physical strength; physical power
- to cross; to surmount; to transcend
- towering mountains and precipitous ridges (idiom)
- see 潮州市[Chao2 zhou1 Shi4]; see 潮州鎮|潮州镇[Chao2 zhou1 Zhen4]
- gang; faction
- hair (on the head)
- city gate
- to close; to shut (a window etc); (of a shop, school etc) to shut down
- servant
- foreigner
- trading company
- the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
- to compile; to edit
- full name
- watercourse (river, canal, drain etc); water route; lane (in a swimming pool)
- riverside; river bank
- to marry; to get married
- mother
- (of woman) to remarry
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- Du Mu (803-852) Tang dynasty poet
- verse; CL:行[hang2]
- on hand; at hand; one's financial situation
- to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter
- field; farm; farming area; village
- embankment between fields
- onomatopoeia