Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- boisterous; uproarious
- first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
- thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft; fine; delicate; trifling; (of a sound) quiet; frugal
- to gaze at; to stare at
- 波 Bō: 波 Bo1: (bound form) Poland (abbr. for 波蘭|波兰[Bo1 lan2]); surname Bo波 bō: 波 bo1: wave; ripple; storm; surge
- (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
- -ism; only
- river bank; river shore; strand
- duck (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (slang) male prostitute
- to have; to have always had
- to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- timidity; timid; cowardly
- yeah (interjection of approval); to belch
- can't help (doing sth); can't refrain from
- 毛 máo: 毛 mao2: hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])毛 Máo: 毛 Mao2: surname Mao
- 骨 gū: 骨 gu1: used in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]; used in 骨朵[gu1 duo5]骨 gǔ: 骨 gu3: bone
- 栗 lì: 栗 li4: (literary) cold; chilly; (bound form) to tremble with fear栗 lì: 栗 li4: chestnut栗 Lì: 栗 Li4: surname Li
- to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct
- legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]); (old) stemmed cup or bowl
- (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy
- to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm
- 神 Shén: 神 Shen2: God神 shén: 神 shen2: god; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy; lively; expressive; look; expression; (coll.) awesome; amazing
- undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
- to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
- your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific); to erupt; to begin abruptly
- fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances
- (bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month (e.g. 上旬[shang4 xun2]); (bound form) ten years (in age expressions, e.g. 六旬[liu4 xun2] "sixty years old")
- what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...; (derog.) so-called
- extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top
- disaster; calamity
- 兆 Zhào: 兆 Zhao4: surname Zhao兆 zhào: 兆 zhao4: (bound form) omen; to foretell; million; mega-; (Tw) trillion; tera-; (old) billion
- the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
- illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect
- half a year
- (loanword) shilling
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- idle person; idler; person who has no legitimate reason to be in a certain place
- in company with
- younger sister