Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to span; to stretch across; to travel across
- to rack one's brains (idiom); to take great pains to think sth through
- erect; towering; to stand tall
- golden; gold (color)
- to decorate; decoration; decorative; ornamental
- main hall of a Buddhist temple
- evergreen pine and cypress (idiom); steadfast nobility
- to sound a bell; (of a clock) to chime
- 重点 chóng diǎn: 重点 chong2 dian3: to recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate重点 zhòng diǎn: 重点 zhong4 dian3: important point; main point; focus; key (project etc); to focus on; to put the emphasis on
- ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
- to make an irrelevant comparison or interpretation (idiom)
- foot of a mountain
- shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation
- to block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi)
- to be situated at; to find oneself at
- (used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of
- stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race
- to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- completely; totally; total; entire; overall; population (statistics)
- to apply makeup conspicuously (idiom); dressed to the nines and wearing makeup
- to construct; building; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to establish; to build
- to feast one's eyes
- seldom; rare; hard to come by
- opportunity; favorable turn of events; stroke of luck
- collect; collection; dense; grassy; thick; assemble; gather
- fortunately
- respected; respectable; honorable
- mien; complexion
- color of the sky; time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky; weather
- to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle)
- to speed; to rush
- like this; this way