Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to be unable to endure
- to lie rigid and motionless
- excuse; pretext
- filial son
- uneven; injustice; unfairness; wrong; grievance; indignant; dissatisfied
- 支吾 zhī wú: 支吾 zhi1 wu2: to resist; to deal with支吾 zhī wu: 支吾 zhi1 wu5: to respond evasively or vaguely; to elude; to stall
- to pay a secret visit; to pay an undercover visit
- 监 jiān: 监 jian1: to supervise; to inspect; jail; prison监 jiàn: 监 jian4: (bound form) supervisor; supervisory office (in imperial China)
- to patrol; to make one's rounds; classifier for rounds of drinks
- to injure; injury; wound
- to instruct sb personally
- as before; as ever
- memorial to the Emperor
- hidden; secret; latent; to hide; to conceal; to submerge; to dive
- to expound; to propagate
- surname Min
- to do one's filial duty
- ruins; (literary) village; country fair
- wooden articles
- homespun cloth
- silver money (in former times)
- multipurpose; having several uses
- Japan
- outline; silhouette
- copper coin of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- large sum of money; old Chinese type of coin of high denomination
- to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark; a collection
- specially made; custom-made
- to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc); application; practical use; (computing) app
- to thread (a needle); (bound form) to sew; to stitch; (literary) very grateful
- (literary) firewood; fuel; (bound form) salary
- to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- girdle
- to drag; to pull; Taiwan pr. [yi4]
- (literary) hair hanging down in front (children's hairstyle)
- mountain stream
- to lean to one side; slanting
- consummate skill; supreme feat; tour-de-force; stunt
- naked