Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo
- Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days)
- to take a wife
- from beginning to end; all along
- teardrop; tear
- to tumble
- to resist (with great difficulty)
- seriously ill
- dying; at one's last gasp
- several times
- as for; when it comes to
- to float; to hover; also written 漂浮
- to walk
- to remain; to be left over
- (idiom) absentminded; dazed; distracted
- tonic
- absolute; unconditional
- 吓 xià: 吓 xia4: to frighten; to scare吓 hè: 吓 he4: to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment)
- cannot get; cannot obtain
- homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight; to drift
- to retrieve; to redeem
- old in years
- coffin containing a corpse
- (idiom) possessing both integrity and talent
- to let go of sth; to give up
- to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides
- intermittent; off and on; discontinuous; stop-go; stammering; disjointed; inarticulate
- to gasp for breath; to take a breather
- urgent; hurried and brief; rushing
- the two eyes
- an answering voice; to answer a voice; to respond; to copy a voice; to parrot
- to flow out; to issue; to leak
- teardrop; tears
- withered; shriveled; dried-up
- to die; to depart from the world forever
- first month (of either lunar or Western calendars)
- empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything