Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to raise (money)
- an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations
- weather
- (of the weather) to warm up again
- to go on a journey; to leave
- to return; to go back; to come back
- as things really are; realistic
- en route
- hardships; arduous; difficult
- to snow
- to meet; to run into; to come across
- Heaven helps the worthy (idiom)
- to recommend
- store; shop
- to take (sth proffered)
- stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved); a (usu. bad) situation; leeway
- to feel distressed about sth; heartache; cardiac pain
- gentle wind and warm sunshine (idiom)
- to write as substitute for sb; a ghost writer; plagiarism
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- stable; calm; settled; to stabilize; Valium; diazepam
- complete; whole; totally; entirely
- in any case; anyhow; after all
- to have a look
- to receive (letter etc)
- servant
- to light a fire for cooking
- to prepare a meal; to cook
- October
- one's whole heart; from the bottom of one's heart
- to try; to make an attempt; to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
- to introduce (sb to sb); to give a presentation; to present (sb for a job etc); introduction
- to disband; to dismiss; demobilization
- lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
- to plan and prepare
- to pretend to look happy; to force oneself to smile
- to console; to soothe; relieved
- to complain; to grumble; to harbor a complaint; to feel dissatisfied
- to request help; to appeal (for help)
- to stay idle at home; to have resigned from office; to be unemployed; to have been fired; to be on a sabbatical
- (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs; too busy to spare time for anything extra