Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- countless difficulties; extremely difficult; against all odds
- to go (to visit a superior); one's current attainment in learning or art
- 冷面 lěng miàn: 冷面 leng3 mian4: grim; stern; harsh冷面 lěng miàn: 冷面 leng3 mian4: naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)
- to bid farewell; to part (usually with little hope of meeting again)
- see 潤州區|润州区[Run4 zhou1 Qu1]
- important general; generalissimo
- to freeze to death; to die off in winter
- to mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign
- to roll up one's sleeves for action
- to abandon restraint; to do as one pleases; comfortable (dialect)
- to lend on interest; to borrow; a loan; leniency; to make excuses; to pardon; to forgive
- parameter
- catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g
- to rupture; to burst open; to break; to break off relations with; a rupture
- member of gentry
- farewell dinner; preserves
- dusk; twilight
- (to speak) at length; engagingly; captivatingly
- disciple; student (of a famous master)
- tangle of vines; fig. complications
- to pour or inject (a liquid or substance) into sth; (fig.) to concentrate (one's energy, spirit etc) on sth; (medicine) to perfuse
- (idiom) grandiose; majestic
- same as 渤海[Bo2 Hai3], Bohai Sea between Liaoning and Shandong; Gulf of Zhili or Chihli
- (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim; (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded
- branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge; to ramify; to subdivide
- to grow without restraint; overflowing with; to happen unexpectedly
- to lose one's splendor; to lose luster; to be eclipsed; to be overshadowed
- a thousand years; your birthday (honorific)
- 霓裳 Ní cháng: 霓裳 Ni2 chang2: Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲[Ni2 chang2 yu3 yi1 qu1] or 霓裳羽衣舞[Ni2 chang2 yu3 yi1 wu3]霓裳 ní cháng: 霓裳 ni2 chang2: nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1]
- dragon boat; imperial boat
- 激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge; also written 激盪|激荡
- (literary) to encircle; to go around; to surround; (literary) whole; full; (literary) classifier for a full circuit or a turn of a coil
- all the year round
- chinaware; porcelain; china
- (of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light; (old) wine cup; (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash); (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
- cherry
- to shine; to illuminate