Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- turbid; muddy; impure
- to wash one's feet
- 覆 fù: 覆 fu4: to reply to a letter覆 fù: 覆 fu4: to cover; to overflow; to overturn; to capsize
- (literary) all; both; entirely; without exception; (literary) to be together; (literary) to be alike
- 绿 lù: 绿 lu4: used in names绿 lǜ: 绿 lu:4: green; (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lu:4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)
- a tourist
- dealings; contacts; to go back and forth
- to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means
- to host a banquet; guest at a banquet
- to make a report (to a superior); to give; to endow; to receive; petition
- life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- to carry; to take along; to bring along; to hold (hands); also pr. [xi1]
- to spend the summer; to take a summer vacation
- heat; hot weather; summer heat
- 罢 ba: 罢 ba5: (final particle, same as 吧)罢 bà: 罢 ba4: to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend; to quit; to finish
- to embroider; embroidery
- subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
- 古 Gǔ: 古 Gu3: surname Gu古 gǔ: 古 gu3: ancient; old; paleo-
- (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
- to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal)
- bad; ill; not good at; not to be pooh-poohed; quite impressive
- 饮 yǐn: 饮 yin3: to drink饮 yìn: 饮 yin4: to give (animals) water to drink
- 强 jiàng: 强 jiang4: stubborn; unyielding强 qiǎng: 强 qiang3: to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort强 Qiáng: 强 Qiang2: surname Qiang强 qiáng: 强 qiang2: strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]
- 教 Jiào: 教 Jiao4: surname Jiao教 jiāo: 教 jiao1: to teach; to instruct教 jiào: 教 jiao4: (bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
- to shoot; to launch; to allude to; radio- (chemistry)
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- excessively; too
- old language; the Classics; Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose; Classical Chinese as a school subject
- 宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong
- 何为 hé wèi: 何为 he2 wei4: (old) why何为 hé wéi: 何为 he2 wei2: what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use
- a national policy
- South China; see 南華縣|南华县[Nan2 hua2 Xian4]
- 匡 Kuāng: 匡 Kuang1: surname Kuang匡 kuāng: 匡 kuang1: (literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate
- to weigh; weight; measure
- elegant
- healthy; to invigorate; to strengthen; to be good at; to be strong in
- 史 shǐ: 史 shi3: history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China史 Shǐ: 史 Shi3: surname Shi
- to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
- Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
- broad; extensive
- see 昌黎縣|昌黎县[Chang1 li2 Xian4]
- muddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural; (bound form) whole; entire; all over