Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to gaze intently; to stare at
- see 澄江市[Cheng2 jiang1 Shi4]
- river; river flow; current
- river water
- to come back; to return
- to change color; to discolor; to change countenance; to become angry
- to refuse; to decline; to reject
- manager; director; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- to settle in (a place); to take up permanent residence; (literary) to strike sb's name from a register
- final month of summer (i.e. sixth month of lunar calendar)
- autumn exam (triennial provincial exam during Ming and Qing)
- whether or not (at the end of a phrase)
- 臧 Zāng: 臧 Zang1: surname Zang臧 zāng: 臧 zang1: good; right
- to instigate; to ruin; to destroy
- to lose one's voice; (to cry out) involuntarily
- as if relieved from a burden (idiom); to have a weight off one's mind
- see 海陵區|海陵区[Hai3 ling2 Qu1]
- to raise one's head and look
- door to women's room; gate to palace
- abruptly; suddenly; unexpectedly
- alone; lonely
- the train of thought in writing
- to close the door (lit. and fig.)
- robber
- 凄 qī: 凄 qi1: intense cold; frigid; dismal; grim; bleak; sad; mournful; also written 淒|凄[qi1]凄 qī: 凄 qi1: sad; mournful凄 qī: 凄 qi1: intense cold; frigid; dismal; grim; bleak; sad; mournful
- to sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for; (literary) to feel sorrow; to be grieved
- how (interj. of surprise)
- to pass on through the generations
- to return alive; to survive
- to be pleased beyond one's expectations (idiom); overjoyed at the turn of events
- going or staying
- imperial
- happen to; sorrow; suffer from
- everything; every matter
- snarling of dogs