Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives; (coll.) naive or easily exploited people (esp. small investors or consumers), likened to chives that can be repeatedly harvested for profit
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- fat; grease; riches; fortune; fruits of one's labor
- (fig.) food
- (idiom) frugality makes honesty
- to reuse
- (bound form) to scold; to expel breath; (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated); interjection of surprise
- surname Ye; ancient district in present-day Hebei 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
- sleep; the land of Nod; dreamland
- uncertain; remote; distant and indistinct; vague
- (literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself; personally
- to sleep soundly
- taxes; duties
- see 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4]
- greatest; most important
- coarse rice; coarse (of food)
- (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest; (bound form) bedroom; (bound form) imperial tomb; (literary) to stop; to cease
- to arrive; to follow; heel
- lunch; luncheon; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- to nap; to doze
- in high spirits (idiom); glowing with health and vigor
- fresh and cool; relaxed
- to disgust; to pall; fed up; tedious; cloying; boring; irritating
- cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along
- World Honored One; Revered One of the World (Buddha)
- (bound form) to feel remorse; (bound form) scripture read to atone for sb's sins (from Sanskrit "ksama")
- fault; transgression
- Buddhist allegorical word or gesture; subtleties of Buddhist doctrine
- graduate; successful candidate in the imperial provincial examination
- Gushi, a county in Xinyang City 信陽市|信阳市[Xin4 yang2 Shi4], Henan
- county head magistrate (old)