Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- 费 fèi: 费 fei4: to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses费 Fèi: 费 Fei4: surname Fei
- to dig
- flowers and plants
- rattan; cane; vine
- decoration; ornament; to decorate; to adorn; to hide; to conceal (a fault); excuse (to hide a fault); to play a role (in opera); to impersonate
- green
- vine; also pr. [teng2 wan4]
- (bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable; also pr. [zuo4]
- a record of events inscribed on a tablet
- high and steep
- mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
- suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing; fig. everything becomes clear at once; to achieve speedy enlightenment
- kitchen
- (lit. and fig.) to open a door; to open for business
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- (of a person) short; (of a wall etc) low; (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)
- railway platform
- 仿 fǎng: 仿 fang3: to imitate; to copy仿 fǎng: 仿 fang3: used in 彷彿|仿佛[fang3 fu2]; (Note: While 仿 is not officially designated as the simplified form of 彷, it serves as the de facto simplification when 彷 is pronounced fǎng.)
- 太平 Tài píng: 太平 Tai4 ping2: see 太平區|太平区[Tai4 ping2 Qu1]太平 tài píng: 太平 tai4 ping2: peace and security
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity
- 板 bǎn: 板 ban3: board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious板 pàn: 板 pan4: to catch sight of in a doorway (old)板 bǎn: 板 ban3: used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]
- to hang (paper); to mount (painting)
- bank president
- emigrant; to reside abroad
- beam; rafter; classifier for rooms
- 绰 chùo: 绰 chuo4: (bound form) ample; spacious; (literary) graceful; used in 綽號|绰号[chuo4 hao4] and 綽名|绰名[chuo4 ming2]绰 chāo: 绰 chao1: to grab; to snatch up
- to have an abundance
- riches and honor
- meteorological condition; weather; meteorology; atmosphere; ambience; scene
- to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person)
- to check; to examine; to inspect; to exercise restraint
- mountain ranges
- even; well-distributed; uniform; to distribute evenly; to share