Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- breeze; light wind
- to sleep; to lie down
- spoken language; sound of speaking
- to visit (a patient, prisoner etc); to look inquiringly
- native; aborigine; clay figure
- to go to a local market or country fair (on market day)
- block; gate pillar; pier; classifier for clusters of plants; classifier for rounds in a card game: trick; (archaic) watchtower
- to turn around
- original position; (in) the same place; normal position; the place where one currently is; in situ
- see 泰興市|泰兴市[Tai4 xing1 Shi4]
- small model car; mini-car; small horse-cart; barrow; wheelbarrow; type of folk dance
- to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot); to cast (a glance, a shadow etc); to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine); to send (a letter, a manuscript etc); to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide); to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of; (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
- doorkeeper
- grandpa; old gentleman
- in the course of doing one's work; on business
- usual; customary
- to make excuses; to give an excuse (for not doing something)
- (bound form) to question closely; to interrogate
- when?
- (bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶[shu4])
- calamitous turn of events; (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
- call out; jeer
- to weep; to shed tears
- soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- yesterday
- to bundle up valuables and abscond
- 人大 Rén dà: 人大 Ren2 da4: Renmin University of China (abbr. for 中國人民大學|中国人民大学[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Da4 xue2])人大 rén dà: 人大 ren2 da4: people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会[ren2 min2 dai4 biao3 da4 hui4])
- must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- trifle; trivial matter; CL:點|点[dian3]
- to entrust
- worrisome; precarious; to be at risk
- to hide
- please don't