Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to present as a gift
- Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (short name 京[Jing1])
- fry (newly hatched fish); legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏[Peng2]
- tin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer; to grant; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- autobiography
- example; precedent; rule; case; instance
- faithful
- an integral whole; all concerned; everybody
- in former times; the olden days
- the literary world
- to look for; to seek; to find fault
- perfect
- lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom); fig. few and far between
- sincere; genuine; straightforward
- false; hypocritical; artificial; sham
- to arrive; to reach (esp. perfection); utmost; (used in commercials)
- both; both of them; neither
- a loom
- writer; man of letters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to endure; to suffer; to be subjected to
- poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- hanging by a thread; very precarious; almost extinct; (of sound) linger on faintly
- 扛 káng: 扛 kang2: to carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)扛 gāng: 扛 gang1: to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
- to let off; to give out
- lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering; a radical change
- to fall; to drop; to weigh down
- great; important; major; significant
- former sovereigns
- nothing else but
- only; nothing else
- mask; fig. false façade; deceptive front
- pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of
- leisurely and carefree mood
- to decide; to determine; to execute (sb); (of a dam etc) to breach or burst; definitely; certainly
- bare; naked; (fig.) plain; undisguised; unadorned
- can't say for sure; maybe