Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to hide; to dodge; to avoid
- to incite; to stir up; to instigate
- bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things
- if; if one were to say
- to keep watch beside a coffin; to observe a period of mourning
- one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit; an iota
- property; assets; estate; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- based on...; in conformance with..; taking as one's main principle
- to conduct oneself; to behave with integrity
- morality; righteousness and justice
- to fight over; to contest; to vie over
- family property
- empty-handed; unarmed; (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model; (abbr. for 空手道[kong1 shou3 dao4]) karate
- (of a person) to turn round; to face about; (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
- very much; extremely; one ten thousandth part
- aloof; detached; disinterested; impartial
- indeed; really; reliable; real; true
- to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year
- for now; for the time being; temporarily
- father; old man; venerable sir
- (polite) my father
- to be determined to; to insist on
- relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- a single penny; a single cent
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- object
- to have; to incorporate; to feature
- west side; west
- to worship Buddha
- doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Lord Guan (i.e. 關羽|关羽[Guan1 Yu3])
- classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
- to wrap one's arm around (used to describe the girth of a tree trunk)
- thick; murky
- in the dead of night (idiom)
- magnanimous; broad and level
- upright; upstanding; honest