Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to cause
- coverlet; quilt
- (bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4])
- unknown
- promenade; long hallway; Long Corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing 北京頤和園|北京颐和园[Bei3 jing1 Yi2 he2 yuan2]
- to treat
- 姥 lǎo: 姥 lao3: grandma (maternal)姥 mǔ: 姥 mu3: governess; old woman
- (bound form) ladder; stairs
- long narrow table
- glass; CL:張|张[zhang1],塊|块[kuai4]; (slang) male homosexual
- (stage) lighting; light
- magnificent; gorgeous; ornate
- full moon
- to creep; to zigzag; to meander; to weave
- sky
- lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal; length and breadth; criss-crossed; able to move unhindered; abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate
- many stars; a vast sky full of stars
- to look back; to review
- vaguely; dimly; probably; very likely
- under; beneath; less than
- yesterday evening; last night
- to lift (a lid); to rock; to convulse
- see 海珠區|海珠区[Hai3 zhu1 Qu1]
- perimeter wall; fence; CL:道[dao4]
- all around; on all sides; encircled
- big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big; CL:門|门[men2],尊[zun1]
- ups and downs (of life etc); to drift along; to sink and emerge
- thirteen; 13
- (old) foreign firm
- 繁 Pó: 繁 Po2: surname Po繁 fán: 繁 fan2: complicated; many; in great numbers; abbr. for 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3], traditional form of Chinese characters
- see 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4]
- local accent
- different; distinct; not the same; not alike
- scale; scope; extent