Vocabulary: 影梅庵忆语|译文
from 浮生忆语集
- 五更x1 | Chapter Rank #3234fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
- 城下x1 | Chapter Rank #3235
- 图谋不轨x1 | Chapter Rank #3236
- 安全x1 | Chapter Rank #3237safe; secure; safety; security
- 脱身x1 | Chapter Rank #3238to get away; to escape (from obligations); to free oneself; to disengage
- 丢失x2 | Chapter Rank #1186to lose; to misplace
- 大半x1 | Chapter Rank #3239more than half; greater part; most; probably; most likely
- 字卷x1 | Chapter Rank #3240
- 大难x1 | Chapter Rank #3241great catastrophe
- 当头x1 | Chapter Rank #3242(coll.) pledge; suretycoming right into one's face; imminent; to put first
- 首先x1 | Chapter Rank #3243first of all; in the first place
- 幼弟x1 | Chapter Rank #3244younger brother
- 跟上x1 | Chapter Rank #3245to catch up with; to keep pace with
- 竹林中x1 | Chapter Rank #3246
- 端午节x1 | Chapter Rank #3247Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
- 陷入x1 | Chapter Rank #3248to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
- 强盗x1 | Chapter Rank #3249to rob (with force); bandit; robber; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 周旋x1 | Chapter Rank #3250to mix with others; to socialize; to deal with; to contend
- 中秋x1 | Chapter Rank #3251the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
- 多月x1 | Chapter Rank #3252
- 一家人x3 | Chapter Rank #659the whole family; members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
- 督x1 | Chapter Rank #3253(bound form) to supervise
- 运x1 | Chapter Rank #3254to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- 漕粮x1 | Chapter Rank #3255grain transported by water (in ancient times)
- 寄居x1 | Chapter Rank #3256to live away from home
- 盐城x6 | Chapter Rank #242see 鹽城市|盐城市[Yan2 cheng2 Shi4]
- 这次x4 | Chapter Rank #427
- 流离失所x1 | Chapter Rank #3257destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about; displaced
- 深明大义x1 | Chapter Rank #3258to have a high notion of one's duty; to be highly principled
- 豁达x1 | Chapter Rank #3259optimistic; sanguine; generous; magnanimous; open-minded
- 变通x1 | Chapter Rank #3260pragmatic; flexible; to act differently in different situations; to accommodate to circumstances
- 读万卷书x1 | Chapter Rank #3261
- 未必x1 | Chapter Rank #3262not necessarily; maybe not
- 如此x3 | Chapter Rank #660like this; so; such
- 清兵x3 | Chapter Rank #661Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
- 攻陷x1 | Chapter Rank #3263to capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
- 家人x3 | Chapter Rank #662family member; (old) servant
- 不过x1 | Chapter Rank #3264only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 八口x3 | Chapter Rank #663
- 受累x1 | Chapter Rank #3265to get dragged into; to get involved (on sb else's account)to be put to a lot of trouble
- 随行x1 | Chapter Rank #3266to accompany
- 仆从x3 | Chapter Rank #664
- 众多x1 | Chapter Rank #3267numerous
- 近百人x1 | Chapter Rank #3268
- 奔走x2 | Chapter Rank #1187to run; to rush about; to be on the go
- 慌乱x1 | Chapter Rank #3269frenetic; hurried
- 轻装x1 | Chapter Rank #3270
- 前车之鉴x1 | Chapter Rank #3271lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom); fig. lesson learned from past mistakes or failures
- 生死x1 | Chapter Rank #3272life or death
- 度外x1 | Chapter Rank #3273outside the sphere of one's consideration