Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- old friend
- to hold a post; to take office
- to sail against the current; (fig.) to go against the flow
- to promote to a higher job; to select for promotion
- (bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity; (bound form) member; classifier for military generals
- to celebrate the Chinese New Year
- this trip
- it's a very long journey to get there
- huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
- horse
- wheel
- lit. both sleeves flowing in the breeze (idiom); having clean hands; uncorrupted; unsoiled by corrupt practices
- to withdraw (money)
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- circumstances; situation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- long sigh; deep sigh
- turmoil; unrest; disturbance
- in this world; under the sun
- see 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3]
- middle part; central section; central region
- see 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
- southern part
- to travel; journey; trip; CL:趟[tang4],次[ci4]
- to apply (for a job); to reply to a job advertisement
- all sides; all aspects; multifaceted
- to give to; to provide to; to bring to; to take to
- ephemeral (idiom)
- in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole; overall situation; the big picture; cadaver for dissection in training medical students
- to be unconventional; independence of action
- to say what everyone says (idiom); to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view; to follow the herd
- to place great importance on; to treasure
- in (sb's) eyes
- where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- too wonderful for words
- county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
- distance; CL:個|个[ge4]; to be apart from
- to approach; to draw near to