Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- calm; composed; at ease
- no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma; trapped; in an impossible situation
- water and land; by water and land (transport); amphibian; delicacies from land and sea
- have both
- population; people
- 法网 Fǎ wǎng: 法网 Fa3 wang3: French Open (tennis tournament)法网 fǎ wǎng: 法网 fa3 wang3: the net of justice; the long arm of the law
- see 平陸縣|平陆县[Ping2 lu4 Xian4]
- 卫 Wèi: 卫 Wei4: surname Wei; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066–221 BC), located in present-day Henan and Hebei Provinces卫 wèi: 卫 wei4: to guard; to protect; to defend; abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene; health; abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet
- errant
- door; to close; whole
- to be of one mind; to work as one
- to draw a bamboo bow or crossbow
- to walk unsteadily; to stagger; to lurch; to hobble; to totter
- to help; to assist; to aid
- carefully; to kick; to tread on; to stamp
- to cherish
- (of hope, appetite, authority etc) to be lost
- great catastrophe
- younger brother
- leek flower; lush; luxuriant
- 庐 Lú: 庐 Lu2: surname Lu; Luzhou or Lu Prefecture 廬州|庐州[Lu2 Zhou1], a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui; Mount Lu 廬山|庐山[Lu2 Shan1] in Jiangxi Province庐 lú: 庐 lu2: hut
- owl; valiant; trafficker
- a mythical animal that eats its mother
- to associate with; to keep company with
- to transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal
- to do whatever is expedient
- to read extensively and thoroughly; nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好|爱好[ai4 hao4] rather than the usual [hao3]
- to collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor; demise
- heavy; cumbersome; unwieldy; laborious; arduous
- outside the sphere of one's consideration
- (literary) lonely; all alone