Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- specialist; person appointed for specific task
- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom); fig. a bolt from the blue
- 肃 Sù: 肃 Su4: surname Su肃 sù: 肃 su4: respectful; solemn; to eliminate; to clean up
- to admit guilt; to plead guilty
- 骑 jì: 骑 ji4: (Tw) saddle horse; mounted soldier骑 qí: 骑 qi2: to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
- to hurry; to go to and fro
- short-sightedness; suicide (esp. in 尋短見|寻短见[xun2 duan3 jian4])
- the whole course of an event from beginning to end; ins and outs; the fundamental and the incidental
- to sever all relations with sb; determined; decisive
- to sob
- to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out
- lies; wild talk; to tell lies; to talk nonsense; fantasy (literature)
- 阿 ā: 阿 a1: prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration; (bound form) Afghanistan (abbr. for 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]); (bound form) Albania (abbr. for 阿爾巴尼亞|阿尔巴尼亚[A1 er3 ba1 ni2 ya4]); (bound form) Algeria (abbr. for 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4]); (bound form) Argentina (abbr. for 阿根廷[A1 gen1 ting2]); also pr. [a4]阿 ē: 阿 e1: (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
- to forgive
- ignorant; ignorance
- (literary) handwritten instruction from a superior or elder
- refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment; not be too hard on subject
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
- south of the five ranges; old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi
- former home
- blood relation; kin; one's flesh and blood
- who would have thought that; who would have expected that
- evil creature
- (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
- 没 méi: 没 mei2: (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not没 mò: 没 mo4: drowned; to end; to die; to inundate
- sad; sorrowful
- to be caused by
- good medicine; panacea; fig. a good solution; a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
- thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold; money and riches; (honorific) invaluable (support); (honorific) daughter
- beautiful woman
- 利 lì: 利 li4: sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit利 Lì: 利 Li4: surname Li
- to be bold enough to speak out
- to sob; to whimper
- inconstant in love; fickle
- infatuated; lovesick person
- brocade garments, jade meals (idiom); a life of luxury; extravagance
- to be content with; to be accustomed to
- to regret; to feel remorse
- over and over again; again and again
- to hate; to regret
- Daihatsu, Japanese car company