Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate
- somewhat; a little; slightly
- (coll.) older sister's husband
- government-run; state-run
- on hand; at hand; one's financial situation
- to collect all the bits to make a whole
- to remember
- warm; nice and warm
- inn; small hotel; hostel
- strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- blanket; quilt; CL:條|条[tiao2],床[chuang2]
- early morning
- light rain; drizzle
- cold wave; CL:股[gu3]
- bone chilling wind (idiom)
- to resist; to withstand
- to plot; to scheme; to calculate
- 刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to blow (of the wind)
- ferocious; fierce; violent; brave; suddenly; abrupt; (slang) awesome
- Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December
- inwardly; to oneself; secretly
- to reckon; to calculate; to plan; to expect; to scheme
- 盘缠 pán chán: 盘缠 pan2 chan2: to twine; to coil盘缠 pán chan: 盘缠 pan2 chan5: money for a voyage; travel expenses
- yellow; vulgar; lewd; pornographic
- wrapping cloth; a bundle wrapped in cloth; load; weight; burden; funny part; punchline
- to size sb up; to look sb up and down; to take the measure of; to suppose; to reckon
- to look familiar; familiar-looking
- you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
- old man; I (an old man referring to himself)
- misfortune; adversity; unfortunate; sad; unfortunately; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to recall fondly; to remember with emotion
- hasn't yet; hasn't ever
- to run into; to come upon; to meet
- to be born of; to come from; family background; class origin
- lowly; humble; cheap; inexpensive
- to betroth a girl (in arranged marriages)
- to plunder; to pillage; to forcibly take
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke