Vocabulary: 影梅庵忆语|译文
from 浮生忆语集
- 地x38 | Chapter Rank #28-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunctearth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- 描写x2 | Chapter Rank #680to describe; to depict; to portray; depiction; portrayal
- 神女x1 | Chapter Rank #1264goddess; (old) prostituteThe Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[Wu2 Yong3 gang1]
- 事迹x2 | Chapter Rank #681notable deeds; exploits
- 肆意x1 | Chapter Rank #1265wantonly; recklessly; willfully
- 传扬x1 | Chapter Rank #1266to spread (by word of mouth)
- 近来x2 | Chapter Rank #682recently; lately
- 好事x1 | Chapter Rank #1267to be meddlesomegood action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
- 再次x4 | Chapter Rank #310once more; once again
- 虚构x1 | Chapter Rank #1268to make up; fabrication; fictional; imaginary
- 撰写x1 | Chapter Rank #1269to write; to compose
- 诗词x2 | Chapter Rank #683verse
- 歌曲x1 | Chapter Rank #1270song
- 夸大x1 | Chapter Rank #1271to exaggerate
- 讲述x2 | Chapter Rank #684to talk about; to narrate; to give an account
- 离奇x1 | Chapter Rank #1272odd; bizarre
- 偶合x1 | Chapter Rank #1273coincidence
- 这x41 | Chapter Rank #26(coll.) this(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- 使得x1 | Chapter Rank #1274usable; serviceable; feasible; workable; doable; to make; to cause; to bring about
- 每个x1 | Chapter Rank #1275each; every
- 家中x6 | Chapter Rank #199
- 都x93 | Chapter Rank #8surname Duall; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at allcapital city; metropolis
- 好像x4 | Chapter Rank #311as if; to seem like
- 有如x1 | Chapter Rank #1276to be like sth; similar to; alike
- 西施x1 | Chapter Rank #1277Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4] of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
- 夷x1 | Chapter Rank #1278non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- 光x2 | Chapter Rank #685light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- 卓文君x1 | Chapter Rank #1279
- 薛x1 | Chapter Rank #1280surname Xue; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)wormwood like grass (classical)
- 涛x1 | Chapter Rank #1281big wave; Taiwan pr. [tao2]
- 一样x13 | Chapter Rank #89same; like; equal to; the same as; just like
- 美x4 | Chapter Rank #312beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify; to be pleased with oneself(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])
- 人才x1 | Chapter Rank #1282talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- 女x1 | Chapter Rank #1283female; woman; daughter
- 是x72 | Chapter Rank #10to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 才女x1 | Chapter Rank #1284talented girl
- 们x12 | Chapter Rank #97plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- 奇冤x1 | Chapter Rank #1285
- 更是x1 | Chapter Rank #1286even more (so)
- 喜好x1 | Chapter Rank #1287to like; fond of; to prefer; to love; one's tastes; preference
- 名声x1 | Chapter Rank #1288reputation
- 恶习x1 | Chapter Rank #1289bad habit; vice
- 我x367 | Chapter Rank #2I; me; my
- 逝去x1 | Chapter Rank #1290to elapse; to pass away; to die; demise
- 爱妾x9 | Chapter Rank #129
- 董x153 | Chapter Rank #6surname Dongto supervise; to direct; director
- 氏x2 | Chapter Rank #686used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1](bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures
- 原名x1 | Chapter Rank #1291original name
- 白x4 | Chapter Rank #313white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in operasurname Bai; Bai ethnic group
- 字x15 | Chapter Rank #77letter; symbol; character; word; CL:個|个[ge4]; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China