Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life); to rove; showy; superficial
- once more; once again
- to sail; to fly; to navigate
- ashore; on the riverbank
- tide
- nautical mile
- (dialect) balcony; terrace; (literary) high building; tower; (old) stage for theatrical performance
- (of waves, anger, a disaster, a crime etc) towering; overwhelming; immense
- horizon; ends of the earth; remotest places
- Jixi, a county in Xuancheng City 宣城市[Xuan1 cheng2 Shi4], Anhui
- way; means; channel
- Is it possible that ... ?
- the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- (of a boat) to reach the shore; to pull toward shore; close to shore; landfall
- frontier; border
- inspection; to examine; to inspect; CL:次[ci4]
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- at a glance; (in book titles) overview
- style; manner; ethos
- small town
- greenish-blue; emerald green
- left side
- 般 bō: 般 bo1: used in 般若[bo1 re3]般 bān: 般 ban1: sort; kind; class; way; manner般 pán: 般 pan2: see 般樂|般乐[pan2 le4]
- (furniture) screen
- smooth; level; to level off; to flatten (remove bumps)
- popular tradition; folk legend
- previous life; former incarnation
- to crisscross; to intertwine
- (idiom) uneven (surface); bumpy (road)
- the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- painter; CL:個|个[ge4]
- the wording and purport of what one writes
- deep red; crimson; scarlet