Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- well-bred young lady
- bad habit; vice
- 本色 běn sè: 本色 ben3 se4: inherent qualities; natural qualities; distinctive character; true qualities本色 běn shǎi: 本色 ben3 shai3: natural color
- to meet in passing; to get on well at first meeting
- arrow; dart; straight; to vow; to swear
- wisdom; intelligence
- disobedient; unfilial
- very close; no gap between them; continuously; unbroken; hard to separate; indistinguishable
- to write a book
- to meet with disaster; killed; in the clutches of the enemy; to fall foul of; in danger
- meet unexpectedly
- lit. to make one's way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom); fig. to handle a crisis effortlessly
- 茹 Rú: 茹 Ru2: surname Ru茹 rú: 茹 ru2: to eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell; vegetables; roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
- thistle; common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus); bitter (taste); cruel; flowering grass in profusion
- alone; desolate
- left and right hands; (fig.) capable assistant; right-hand man
- to deceive; there is none
- bitter and sad
- pain; anguish; suffering
- high-minded and righteous person; patriot; loyalist
- comrades; friends; companions
- at the same time; simultaneously
- recollections; to relate (past events)
- insignificant; trifling; merely
- (bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy
- intimate; taking liberties; familiar (with a negative connotation)
- (loanword) sarong
- stare at sth beyond reach
- light (weight); frivolous; a philanderer; to scorn; disrespectful
- to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
- sixteenth year F4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1999 or 2059
- to take an exam; (of an education system) to be exam-oriented
- a beauty; beautiful
- ripple
- 炤 Zhào: 炤 Zhao4: surname Zhao炤 zhào: 炤 zhao4: to shine; to illuminate
- (literary) very close; very near
- rabbit
- knot; tie a knot
- charm or grace (in poetry or art)