Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- 哀 āi: 哀 ai1: (bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole哀 āi: 哀 Ai1: Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2]
- close to death; life-threatening (illness)
- changes; vicissitudes
- dream; illusion; reverie
- lowering and raising of the head; (fig.) small move; pitch (position angle)
- from birth; by one's nature
- (idiom) muddleheaded
- (old) to report to one's master
- to be out of the question
- to be versed in; to know well
- Samadhi (Buddhist term)
- insects
- not to tire of; not to object to
- for a very long time
- to pay attention to one's appearance; to like to be well-groomed; (literary) on very friendly terms
- one's nature; temperament
- all kinds of
- to make reference to; to mention
- (literary) house; building
- relying on; on the basis of
- pleased
- to consider oneself as being not as good as the others
- destitute; wretched poverty
- comrade; (slang) homosexual; CL:位[wei4]
- to loiter (i.e. reluctant to leave); to linger on
- later generations
- innovative thinking; ingenuity
- to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- no wonder!; so that's why!
- smart; charming; attractive; witty; facetious; ironic
- to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting
- truth
- (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom); verbose
- minor government official or functionary (old)
- to pass judgment on a legal case