Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- vulgar; coarse; uncouth
- (usu. of livestock) fat
- grandiose but impractical (idiom); large but of no real use
- resident; inhabitant
- Merlin
- a glance; a quick look; a glimpse
- tall and straight
- tree trunk
- rotten; decayed; decadent; degenerate
- spiral
- development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- to lead; to command; to head
- ancestor; forebear
- to exert a gradual influence; to nurture; a corrupting influence
- frame; classifier for paintings etc; Taiwan pr. [zheng4]
- September
- (formal) to go to; to head for
- 阙 Què: 阙 Que4: surname Que阙 quē: 阙 que1: used in place of 缺 (old); mistake阙 què: 阙 que4: Imperial city watchtower (old); fault; deficiency
- toward; to face; to open onto; to turn towards; orientation; exposure; Qibla (Islam)
- mountain ridge
- maple
- to glitter; brilliant; splendid
- incomparable; matchless
- long; drawn-out; prolonged; lingering
- northern side; north
- closely; tightly
- see 南城縣|南城县[Nan2 cheng2 Xian4]
- topography; terrain; landform
- to restrict; to limit; to confine; restriction; limit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- roof
- flower; fresh flowers; CL:朵[duo3]
- soles of the feet
- to coil (around sth); to twine; to weave (basketwork)
- to leak (information); to divulge; also pr. [xie4lou4]
- to guess; to conjecture
- foundations (of a building); base
- lit. to pile up (bricks); to pack; fig. to pad out (writing with fancy phrases); ornate rhetoric
- dead weight; weight capacity of a vehicle
- the West; the Occident; Western countries
- field of view; (fig.) outlook; perspective
- bright and spacious