Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to eat and drink as much as one likes; to make a pig of oneself
- to envy; to admire
- to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content
- a little
- nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
- water gruel; thin porridge
- to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support
- intelligence and ability
- box; case; hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines
- 涂 tú: 涂 tu2: to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street涂 Tú: 涂 Tu2: surname Tu
- gray; ash gray; grizzly; pessimistic; gloomy; dispirited; ambiguous
- 棱 lēng: 棱 leng1: used in 刺棱[ci1 leng1]; used in 花不棱登[hua1 bu5 leng1 deng1]; used in 撲棱|扑棱[pu1 leng1]棱 léng: 棱 leng2: square beam棱 líng: 棱 ling2: used in 穆稜|穆棱[Mu4 ling2] (the name of a place in Heilongjiang); used in 丹稜|丹棱[Dan1 ling2] (the name of a place in Sichuan); used in 綏稜|绥棱[Sui2 ling2] (the name of a place in Heilongjiang)棱 léng: 棱 leng2: arris; edge; corrugation; ridges
- decorative design
- cover; lid; shell
- 把手 bǎ shou: 把手 ba3 shou5: handle; grip; knob把手 bǎ shǒu: 把手 ba3 shou3: to shake hands
- to be just like
- to cover
- apart from this; in addition to this
- chopstick
- which; who
- saving; to save; to use sparingly; to cut down on
- bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient; Rob Peter to pay Paul
- orderly; neat; even; tidy
- dark; dark colored
- to make dirty; to defile; to smear
- to receive a visitor
- dress; clothing; costume; clothes; CL:身[shen1]
- frugal; economical
- again; once more; re-
- 空空荡荡 kōng kōng dàng dàng: 空空荡荡 kong1 kong1 dang4 dang4: deserted空空荡荡 kōng kōng dàng dàng: 空空荡荡 kong1 kong1 dang4 dang4: absolutely empty (space); complete vacuum
- bamboo pole
- black
- to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc); movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc); (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity; (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项[xiang4]); to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
- to cut off a section of sth
- half (of sth); halfway through
- height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]