Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- 刊 kān: 刊 kan1: to print; to publish; publication; periodical; to peel with a knife; to carve; to amend刊 kān: 刊 kan1: to peel with a knife; to carve; to amend
- because; owing to; on account of
- early summer
- East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
- continuous; unbroken; uninterrupted; extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
- maritime
- to be born
- 当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- firmament
- to show great affection and care
- to reach; to achieve; to attain
- extreme point; pole; the origin (in polar coordinates)
- Su Dongpo, another name for Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 (1037-1101), northern Song writer and calligrapher
- if; in case; in the event that
- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- to fail to live up (to expectations); unworthy (of trust); to let down; to betray (hopes); to disappoint
- to think over; to consider; consideration
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- specially; intentionally
- to describe; to depict; to portray; depiction; portrayal
- 妻子 qī zi: 妻子 qi1 zi5: wife妻子 qī zǐ: 妻子 qi1 zi3: wife and children
- chapter; section (of a written work); passage of writing; (fig.) chapter (in the history of sth)
- table of contents
- one by one
- to list; to make a list
- ashamed
- erudition; scholarly knowledge
- shallow and crude; meager (knowledge or skill)
- can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to speak frankly; frank; open; blunt
- to write an account (of events)
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- here
- to investigate; to check and research; exquisite
- rhetoric
- 那 Nā: 那 Na1: surname Na那 Núo: 那 Nuo2: surname Nuo那 nà: 那 na4: (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case)那 núo: 那 nuo2: (archaic) many; beautiful; how
- exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- equivalent to
- to blame; to rebuke
- dirt; filth; grime
- mirror; CL:面[mian4],個|个[ge4]
- why?; for what reason?