Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to select a suitable site; site; location
- to build
- to revolve around; to center on (an issue)
- to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
- to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
- day-to-day; daily; everyday
- to draw; to paint
- ordinary day; everyday; ordinarily; usually
- cost; expenditure; expense; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- plain tea and simple food; (fig.) bread and water
- necessary; essential; indispensable; required
- way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- to approve of; to agree with (an opinion, action etc); to endorse
- there
- to die; to pass away
- to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
- to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors
- temple; monastery; shrine
- inside; interior; also pr. [li3 mian5]
- family name
- family; clan
- each; respective; apiece
- courtyard
- numerous and close together; densely packed; thickly dotted
- type; style
- to display; to exhibit
- small side table; coffee table; teapoy (ornamental tripod with caddies for tea)
- competition (sports etc); match; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]; to compete
- daytime; during the day; day; CL:個|个[ge4]
- nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes)
- (idiom) variable; uneven; irregular
- bright; resplendent
- smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line; cigarette (CL:支[zhi1],條|条[tiao2],根[gen1],包[bao1],盒[he2])
- lit. sinking and floating; to bob up and down on water; ebb and flow; fig. rise and fall; ups and downs of fortune; vicissitudes
- 摆设 bǎi she: 摆设 bai3 she5: ornament; decorative item; (fig.) sth that is merely for show摆设 bǎi shè: 摆设 bai3 she4: to set out; to display; to furnish (a room or house)
- to chat
- to stand in a circle and watch
- ant
- railing; banister
- to stop; to bar the way
- spectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc)