Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- billows; great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
- quiet and contented; indifferent to fame or gain
- see 陽明區|阳明区[Yang2 ming2 Qu1]
- so long as; provided; if
- innate sense of right and wrong; conscience; bosom friend
- vivid; distinct; clear; sincere; honest
- emotionally exhausted; drained
- (idiom) to use literary phrases in one's writing to show off one's erudition
- Heaven's law; the natural order of things
- garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives; (coll.) naive or easily exploited people (esp. small investors or consumers), likened to chives that can be repeatedly harvested for profit
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- fat; grease; riches; fortune; fruits of one's labor
- (fig.) food
- (of foods) fatty; greasy
- (idiom) frugality makes honesty
- to reuse
- (bound form) to scold; to expel breath; (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated); interjection of surprise
- surname Ye; ancient district in present-day Hebei 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
- sleep; the land of Nod; dreamland
- uncertain; remote; distant and indistinct; vague
- (literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself; personally
- to sleep soundly
- taxes; duties
- see 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4]
- greatest; most important
- coarse rice; coarse (of food)
- (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest; (bound form) bedroom; (bound form) imperial tomb; (literary) to stop; to cease
- to arrive; to follow; heel
- lunch; luncheon; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- to nap; to doze
- in high spirits (idiom); glowing with health and vigor
- fresh and cool; relaxed
- to disgust; to pall; fed up; tedious; cloying; boring; irritating