Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- white head of hair; fig. old person
- aged; in one's eighties
- twists and turns
- beautiful
- inevitably
- to envy (success, talent); jealous
- depressed; dispirited; dejected
- entirely; to exhaust
- care-worn; distressed; tired; overworked; sick; weary
- middle of the forehead; imperial court; heaven
- the world; this world; the world of the living
- to break; to smash
- bucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc); CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- tears; nasal mucus
- grain; corn
- to initiate; to instigate; to introduce; to lead
- otherwise; if not; or (else)
- to engrave; inscribed motto
- Bai Juyi (772-846), Tang dynasty poet
- profane; secular; worldly
- flowery writing; writing concerning love and sex
- from age to age
- (bound form) to patronize; to support; to aid; (bound form) to praise; to laud
- to transmit Buddhist teaching; chakram or chakka (throwing disk)
- 什 shén: 什 shen2: what什 shí: 什 shi2: ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc); assorted; miscellaneous
- felt; silken banner
- (interrog.)
- quiet; to live alone
- to engrave; to carve; hard steel
- to trace over; to take a copy (of a calligraphy, a painting etc); (fig.) to describe; to portray
- to imagine; to envision; imagination
- 神女 Shén nǚ: 神女 Shen2 nu:3: The Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[Wu2 Yong3 gang1]神女 shén nǚ: 神女 shen2 nu:3: goddess; (old) prostitute
- to prate
- 洪 Hóng: 洪 Hong2: surname Hong洪 hóng: 洪 hong2: flood; big; great