Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to lie supine
- scallion; green onion; verdant; lush green
- lawn; meadow; sod; turf; CL:片[pian4]
- azure; sky-blue
- limpid; crystal clear
- the sky; the firmament; the vault of heaven
- exquisite
- to draw designs, maps etc; picture (e.g. of life in the city)
- Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu, one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- clamor; noise
- (literary) we; us
- to see clearly; to recognize; to realize
- to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount
- inferior
- to conquer; to subdue; to vanquish
- (idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury
- to perish; to ruin; to destroy
- to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce
- afternoon; decline
- to remain; to be left; to have as remainder
- lightning; electricity; electric (bound form); to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc
- to boast; to blow one's own horn
- small bird; young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick); (fig.) penis (kiddie term); (golf) birdie
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- (bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals
- awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]
- lapel of jacket; heart; aspiration; vision
- poor and lowly
- content with one's situation; to know contentment (hence happiness)
- to lack patience
- 俚 Lǐ: 俚 Li3: old name for the 黎[Li2] ethnic group俚 lǐ: 俚 li3: rustic; vulgar; unrefined; abbr. for 俚語|俚语[li3 yu3], slang
- unlimited; unbounded
- to cease; to end
- (coll.) to chat casually; to shoot the breeze (originally Cantonese)
- billows; great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
- wild fantasy; unwarranted thought
- quiet and contented; indifferent to fame or gain
- see 陽明區|阳明区[Yang2 ming2 Qu1]
- innate sense of right and wrong; conscience; bosom friend
- emotionally exhausted; drained
- (idiom) to use literary phrases in one's writing to show off one's erudition
- Heaven's law; the natural order of things