Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart
- time available
- limited; finite
- to be busy rushing about; to bustle about
- ordinary; commonplace; busy; bustling about
- (of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring; (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds
- to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score; not many; only a few
- Epang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]; also pr. [E1fang2 Gong1]
- glory and splendor
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- to fully grasp; to penetrate
- savage; furious
- countryside; areas outside the city
- karma; cause and effect
- to flourish and decay; rise and fall
- beautiful
- reeds of a panpipe
- repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
- to be mistreated; to be bullied
- to immerse; to soak; to steep; gradually
- muscles and bones; physique; strength; courage
- the prime of one's life
- to accumulate; to store up
- of no avail; not helping in the least
- one's heart; one's mind
- to punish; to reprimand; to warn
- to relieve anxieties
- son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- to accept; to receive
- wife; family; (literary) residence
- peaceful relations; harmonious