Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 淖 Nào: 淖 Nao4: surname Nao淖 nào: 淖 nao4: slush; mud
- (literary) virgin; maiden
- 乐天 Lè tiān: 乐天 Le4 tian1: Lotte (South Korean conglomerate)乐天 lè tiān: 乐天 le4 tian1: carefree; happy-go-lucky; optimistic
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- realism
- representative; delegate; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4],名[ming2]; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of
- poem; poetic works
- The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4]
- romanticism
- source; origin; fountainhead
- to edit; to compile; editor; compiler
- Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- region south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, esp. central Anhui Province; see 淮南市[Huai2 nan2 Shi4]
- to praise; to commend; to honor; (of clothes) large or loose
- (bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
- work (of art); opus; CL:部[bu4],篇[pian1]
- rhetoric
- structure; composition; makeup; architecture; CL:座[zuo4],個|个[ge4]
- great; grand
- person (first person, second person etc in grammar); called; known as
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- to resign; to dismiss; to decline; (literary) to take leave; (archaic poetic genre) ballad
- to admire wholeheartedly; to fall in love with
- 妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife
- to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- rich merchant
- good looks (of a woman)
- dainty
- to be proficient in; to master (a subject)
- tuning; temperament; music
- to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument