Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- boatman; boat dweller
- converted to (religion)
- former years; previous years
- endangered (species); in imminent danger; critically ill
- (of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die
- 戚戚 qī qī: 戚戚 qi1 qi1: sorrowful; distressed戚戚 qī qī: 戚戚 qi1 qi1: intimate; closely related; sorrowful; distressed
- to grieve; to be broken-hearted; to feel deeply hurt
- to go against; to do sth contrary to (sb's wishes)
- to untie; to free; to absolve of; to get free of; to extirpate oneself; (Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries
- to stay at; to live in (temporarily)
- 庄 Zhuāng: 庄 Zhuang1: surname Zhuang庄 zhuāng: 庄 zhuang1: farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
- unmoved; indifferent; unruffled by sentiment
- have no way out; have no alternative; abbr. to 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4]
- to compose; to write words to a tune
- to take things philosophically
- occasionally; from time to time
- nowhere
- unfavorable; adverse
- 造化 zào huà: 造化 zao4 hua4: (literary) Nature; the Creator造化 zào hua: 造化 zao4 hua5: good luck
- funeral music; plaint; dirge
- harmony; pleased
- (bound form) to regret; to repent
- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist by his own petard
- sages of the past; worthy predecessors
- to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out
- all kinds of
- to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- useful; beneficial; profitable
- (literary) similar; almost; (literary) if only; it is to be hoped that; (literary) maybe; perhaps
- to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning
- to break; to destroy; to devastate; to ravage; to repress
- 历年 lì nián: 历年 li4 nian2: calendar year历年 lì nián: 历年 li4 nian2: over the years; bygone years
- not without
- 闷 mèn: 闷 men4: bored; depressed; melancholy; sealed; airtight; tightly closed闷 mēn: 闷 men1: stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly
- time; length of time; moment; period
- 兀 Wù: 兀 Wu4: surname Wu兀 wù: 兀 wu4: (literary) rising to a height; towering; (literary) bald; bare; (literary) still; yet
- to sit upright
- (bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to capture (video or still images); (literary) to conserve (one's health); (literary) to act for
- puppet
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means