Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc
- in full bloom
- spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms); cuttlefish (on dining menus); (literary) beautiful woman
- uneven and jumbled (idiom); irregular and disorderly; in a tangled mess
- stamen; pistil
- gap; interval; compartment; to divide; to separate; to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)
- to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from
- vestige; mark; trace
- clear; distinct; obvious
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- to hide; to conceal; to mask; to shelter; to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden); to hide oneself; to lie low; to nestle; hidden; implicit; private; covert; recessed (lighting)
- preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- to break or cut in two; to sever; to cut off; (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc); to interrupt; (math.) to truncate
- to set up; to arrange; to lay out
- up to the maximum; upper limit; at most
- shelf for goods; shop shelf
- regular; orderly; successive; in order
- ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]
- symmetry; symmetrical
- fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment; CL:個|个[ge4]
- degree; level; extent
- to understand tacitly (idiom); to know intuitively; to understand thoroughly
- implement; utensil; article; object
- to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in
- nail; snag; saboteur
- to heat
- to melt; to thaw; to dissolve; to blend into; to combine; to fuse
- bottom
- (lit. and fig.) to cool
- attitude; posture; stance
- suitable; appropriate
- in a mess; in a jumble; chaotic
- a smidgen; a little bit; a few
- sand; grit; CL:粒[li4],把[ba3]
- to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid; to carry weight; to regard as; to consider (to be ...)
- all kinds
- situation; state
- reverse side; backside; the other side (of a problem etc); negative; bad
- lateral side; side; aspect; profile
- 看好 kàn hǎo: 看好 kan4 hao3: to regard as having good prospects看好 kān hǎo: 看好 kan1 hao3: to keep an eye on
- just now; then