Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- graceful; elegant; to drift; to float
- making one happy; gratifying; heartening
- to talk freely
- (literary) fatigued; wearied
- 术 zhú: 术 zhu2: various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea术 shù: 术 shu4: method; technique
- known; what one knows
- to get angry
- to find amusement in one's own way; to enjoy oneself quietly
- pond; pool
- a room in a Buddhist monastery; a temple
- proud; arrogant; to despise; unyielding; to defy
- to light a lamp; to raise a lantern
- almost; nearly going to
- joyful; cheerful; delighted; joy; delight
- to stress; to emphasize; particular about sth; to strive for
- empty; hollow; lacking in substance
- lit. happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy (idiom); fig. emotions
- to defend; to protect (against)
- for fear that; lest; also written 惟恐
- to trespass; to mix; to mingle
- recently; lately
- to put sb to trouble (of doing sth); vexation; inconvenience
- sufficient to...; so much so that; so that
- often; constantly
- cautious; prudent
- compilation; selected works
- (say) a few words
- to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain; to gather together; to collect; depth; inner strength; profundity
- (bound form) radiance; brilliance; to shine
- Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora); common herbaceous peony; peony used in TCM
- stem (of fruit)
- dewdrop
- field; farm; farming area; village
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (often used in the negative) to care about