Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- wing (of a traditional house); side room
- (coll.) clothes
- woven cloth; to weave cloth
- 赚 zhuàn: 赚 zhuan4: to earn; to make a profit赚 zuàn: 赚 zuan4: to cheat; to swindle
- to use for the purpose of; to serve as
- to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee)
- cheaply-priced; low-cost
- material; timber; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)
- to put out; to issue
- food
- cooking; culinary arts
- different kind of; another sort of; special; unusual
- to buy groceries
- dust
- free and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered; unbuttoned; without care or worries
- to sketch from nature; to do a still life drawing
- Yuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord
- landscape painting
- birds and beasts; fauna
- grass script; cursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)
- seal script (Chinese calligraphic style)
- to engrave a seal; stamp mark; to print with carved type; to leave a deep impression
- to hold a reception; to offer hospitality; to entertain (guests); to serve (customers)
- to comment on; to discuss; comment; commentary; CL:篇[pian1]
- from time to time
- swallow
- freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
- to sell off
- dowry
- complaint
- regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
- easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly
- to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth
- beloved
- taboo; contraindication (medicine); to abstain from
- bureaucrat; official
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- to play mahjong or cards
- to gamble
- to go against; to be contrary to; to violate
- bold; open-minded; heroic
- wanton and unrestrained (idiom); dissolute
- quiet; peaceful; calm