Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- to link; to join; to connect
- to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc); to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes); to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
- eighteen; 18
- in former years; in previous years
- 绍 shào: 绍 shao4: to continue; to carry on绍 Shào: 绍 Shao4: surname Shao
- a long period of separation
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- to meet; to see each other; CL:次[ci4]
- words of politeness; politesse; decorous talking; talk with propriety
- to patrol; to perambulate; to travel around within an area
- 民 mín: 民 min2: (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country民 Mín: 民 Min2: surname Min
- government office in feudal China; yamen
- Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
- to hope; to admire
- military expert; general
- thought; thinking; idea; ideology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- far-reaching; profound and long-lasting
- (bound form) quail
- shabby
- clothing; unlined garment
- hall
- front part; front section
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- to calculate; to compute; to consider; to think over; to plot; to scheme
- unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole); work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform); CL:個|个[ge4]
- guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
- small crack; chink
- crack; crevice; CL:道[dao4]
- ocher
- stone; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- to use in medicine
- paint; dye; pigment
- trunks (for books)
- interest (on a loan); CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- to clamor; to make noise
- to shout; to bellow one's grievances
- to collect water; to be covered with water; to pond; accumulated water; ponding