Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- continuous; uninterrupted
- why; how; when; what; where
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- to bring disaster on oneself
- affectionate; passionate; emotional; sentimental
- 重 chóng: 重 chong2: to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer重 zhòng: 重 zhong4: heavy; serious; to attach importance to
- unruly; uninhibited
- 累 lěi: 累 lei3: to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]); continuous; repeated累 lèi: 累 lei4: tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard累 léi: 累 lei2: rope; to bind together; to twist around
- brave and chivalrous
- anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
- to reach adulthood; an adult
- (of a woman) to get married; to take a husband
- lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom); fig. to spend money like water; extravagant
- another person; sb else; other people
- inevitably
- character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- to be in straitened circumstances
- proverb
- human emotions; social relationship; friendship; favor; a good turn
- won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable
- to ridicule
- for all eternity; throughout all ages; eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
- married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to; CL:個|个[ge4]
- superior and subordinate; social ranking
- older and younger; seniority
- to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- forty-second year B6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1965 or 2025
- see 海寧市|海宁市[Hai3 ning2 Shi4]
- see 家信[jia1 xin4]
- to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily; (bound form) foster (as in 寄女[ji4 nu : 3] foster daughter); to send by post; to mail
- envelope; case; letter
- 媳妇 xí fù: 媳妇 xi2 fu4: daughter-in-law; wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation媳妇 xí fu: 媳妇 xi2 fu5: (dialect) wife; (dialect) young married woman
- letter to or from home or family
- 付 fù: 付 fu4: to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things付 Fù: 付 Fu4: surname Fu
- unsuitable; improper; inappropriate
- to write on behalf of sb; to ghostwrite
- sth written or painted in one's own hand; (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill; style; hand; (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc; scale
- thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China); a kind of official document (in former times); letter; note; plague
- for a long time
- to disdain to do sth; to think sth not worth doing; to feel it beneath one's dignity
- until; while