Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to refuse to concede; not to give in
- light makeup
- equivalent to either 是[shi4] or 就是[jiu4 shi4]
- bird cage; (fig.) prison; confinement
- personnel; human resources; human affairs; ways of the world; (euphemism) sexuality; the facts of life
- easy task
- to be buried with the dead; to die for a cause
- to dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge; to protrude; to break through; to rush out; sudden; Taiwan pr. [tu2]
- sinuous; meandering; to take a circuitous route; to toss about; vicissitudes
- nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised
- endless prattle; to chatter incessantly
- impromptu; improvised; to take one's seat (at a banquet etc)
- nineteenth year I7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2002 or 2062
- government; CL:個|个[ge4]
- anxiety; sympathy; to sympathize; to give relief; to compensate
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
- to adjoin; to border on
- the other day; a few days ago
- not stint; not spare; not hesitate (to do sth); not scruple (to do sth)
- to bring into; to channel into; to integrate into; to incorporate
- distracted; listless; in low spirits
- everlasting; unbounded
- trials and tribulations
- ecstasy; rapt
- one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- to go to some place at night; to take a night trip to (a place); to sleepwalk
- to knock on a door
- to mutter to oneself irresolutely
- former years; previous years
- words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)
- to look closely at; to examine
- to resign; to quit
- deeply; heavily
- in a panicked state; frightened
- furniture; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- food and drink
- entirely different; quite separate