Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to grow; to grow up; to be brought up
- 空地 kòng dì: 空地 kong4 di4: vacant land; open space空地 kōng dì: 空地 kong1 di4: air-to-surface (missile)
- 编制 biān zhì: 编制 bian1 zhi4: to establish (a unit or department); authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)编制 biān zhì: 编制 bian1 zhi4: to weave; to plait; to compile; to put together (a lesson plan, budget etc)
- dense (of plant growth); lush
- to shelter; to shelter from
- to inlay; to embed; to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring); tiling; tesselation
- to push open (a gate etc); to push away; to reject; to decline
- to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- to go round a curve; to turn a corner; fig. a new direction
- to lead to
- balcony; porch
- poor; poverty-stricken; impoverished
- regular; usual; normal; usually; normally
- to design; to plan; design; plan
- slab; board; plank; CL:張|张[zhang1],塊|块[kuai4]
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- to seem; to look; to appear
- living room; sitting room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- in picturesque disorder (idiom); irregular arrangement with charming effect
- space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space
- in surplus
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- to pick up; to collect
- veined pattern; wrinkles; vein lines (in marble or fingerprint); grain (in wood etc)
- mountain range; unbroken chain of peaks
- to observe and emulate; to study (esp. following sb's example)
- to consult; to talk over; to discuss
- people
- lime (calcium oxide)
- to place in; to put in (a position)
- even; well-distributed; homogeneous; well-proportioned (figure, body etc)
- to coordinate; to harmonize; to fit together; to match (colors etc); harmonious; concerted
- to carve; to engrave; carving
- imprint; trace
- shoddy; of poor quality
- to pound into pieces; to mash
- to paint; to smear; to apply (makeup etc); to doodle; to erase; to obliterate