Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 贾 Jiǎ: 贾 Jia3: surname Jia贾 gǔ: 贾 gu3: merchant; to buy
- 董 dǒng: 董 dong3: to supervise; to direct; director董 Dǒng: 董 Dong3: surname Dong
- 策 Cè: 策 Ce4: surname Ce策 cè: 策 ce4: policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
- surname Yu; name of a mountain
- 徐 Xú: 徐 Xu2: surname Xu徐 xú: 徐 xu2: slowly; gently
- parallel prose (ancient literary style)
- 陆 lìu: 陆 liu4: six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)陆 lù: 陆 lu4: (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)陆 Lù: 陆 Lu4: surname Lu
- gifts to superiors
- resources; capital; to provide; to supply; to support; money; expense
- to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed
- to understand; to comprehend; to grasp
- 全 quán: 全 quan2: all; whole; entire; every; complete全 Quán: 全 Quan2: surname Quan
- 高 Gāo: 高 Gao1: surname Gao高 gāo: 高 gao1: high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- male; staminate; grand; imposing; powerful; mighty; person or state having great power and influence
- woman; female
- to draw a bow to the full; the range of a bow and arrow
- 诗 shī: 诗 shi1: poem; CL:首[shou3]; poetry; verse诗 Shī: 诗 Shi1: abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
- to understand; to comprehend
- 唐 táng: 唐 tang2: to exaggerate; empty; in vain唐 Táng: 唐 Tang2: Tang dynasty (618–907); surname Tang
- person with remarkable academic or artistic attainments; master craftsman; highly esteemed person
- to push; to cut; to refuse; to reject; to decline; to shirk (responsibility); to put off; to delay; to push forward; to nominate; to elect; massage
- 李 lǐ: 李 li3: plum李 Lǐ: 李 Li3: surname Li
- 杜 Dù: 杜 Du4: surname Du杜 dù: 杜 du4: birchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent; to restrict
- high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)
- who
- 发 fā: 发 fa1: to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)发 fà: 发 fa4: hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- to comment on; to discuss; to suggest
- pure; unadulterated; exquisite
- confident and at ease; free and easy
- down and out; in dire straits; unrestrained; unconventional
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- strict; rigid; tight (security)
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- lively; vivacious; brisk; active; (chemistry) reactive
- Ministry of Works (in imperial China)
- scholar
- forms of versification; conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition; metrical verse
- meticulous; rigorous
- imperial decree; purport; aim; purpose
- (bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly
- without authority; to usurp; to arrogate to oneself; to monopolize; expert in; to be good at