Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- to amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math.) product (the result of multiplication); (TCM) constipation; indigestion
- 载 zài: 载 zai4: to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously载 zǎi: 载 zai3: to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year
- authenticated; solid; firm; real; true
- 肖 Xiāo: 肖 Xiao1: surname Xiao; Taiwan pr. [Xiao4]肖 xiào: 肖 xiao4: similar; resembling; to resemble; to be like
- picture; image; film; movie; photograph; reflection; shadow; trace
- whitewashed wall; to whitewash a wall
- 铺 pù: 铺 pu4: store铺 pū: 铺 pu1: to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker铺 pù: 铺 pu4: plank bed; place to sleep; shop; store; (old) relay station
- shade (of a color, i.e. light or dark)
- daytime
- won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
- (I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc); one's own (apartment, brand etc)
- cauliflower; gonorrhea
- 黄 Huáng: 黄 Huang2: surname Huang or Hwang黄 huáng: 黄 huang2: yellow; pornographic; to fall through
- bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
- restaurant; bartender; (old) wineshop; tavern
- small box; case
- cold drink
- meaning; implication; flavor; overtone; to mean; to imply; (Tw) to get a sense of
- nearby; in a close neighborhood
- hot drink
- 担 dàn: 担 dan4: picul (100 catties, 50 kg); two buckets full; carrying pole and its load; classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole担 dān: 担 dan1: to undertake; to carry; to shoulder; to take responsibility
- the fire of a stove
- wonton; Chinese ravioli (served in soup); Taiwan pr. [hun2dun5]
- pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing; CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]
- kitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen
- to employ; to hire; to rent
- to cook
- to put into the pot (to cook)
- short of; tired
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- can; jar; pot
- to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across
- plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
- to pan fry; to sauté
- to applaud; to clap