Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- (bound form) evil spirit; devil; (prefix) supernatural; magical
- to disturb
- highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women); to be born unlucky
- (typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…|对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ...
- in the end; ultimately; after all
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- to witness; to see at first hand; to see with one's own eyes
- bright; devoted; having sth on one's mind; troubled
- to do with difficulty; to force sb to do sth; reluctant; barely enough
- weak; worried; sickly; wan
- heartbroken; inconsolable
- time and again; repeatedly; frequently
- to float in the air; swiftly; nimbly; easy and relaxed
- clouds and mist
- (literary) dangerous; perilous; (literary) almost; well-nigh
- the body (as opposed to the soul)
- tonic; supplement
- meditation
- (onom.) to sigh; to sob
- opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality
- front line
- to listen; to hear what sb says; news one has heard
- dark; deep; stupid; the underworld
- destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
- to worry about; to be concerned about
- 春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- powerless; lacking strength
- skeleton; skeletal remains
- to lay in place; to put; to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial
- both parents
- (bound form) to leave behind
- to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved grievances.)
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- intestines
- grief
- lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom); fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life
- 巫山 Wū shān: 巫山 Wu1 shan1: see 巫山縣|巫山县[Wu1 shan1 Xian4]巫山 Wū Shān: 巫山 Wu1 Shan1: Mt Wu on the Changjiang River (Yangtze) by the Three Gorges
- 不是 bù shì: 不是 bu4 shi4: no; is not; not不是 bù shi: 不是 bu4 shi5: fault; blame
- intermittent
- unable to speak; silent