Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to be amazed; to be surprised; to wonder
- early in the morning; at dawn
- destination (location)
- to spend money
- to be trapped; to be imprisoned
- to have no alternative (idiom)
- to get out of danger
- see 江岸區|江岸区[Jiang1 an4 Qu1]
- to travel at double speed; to make all haste
- divine strategy and wonderful planning (idiom); clever scheme; supremely clever in his schemes
- to give up; to admit failure; to drop the matter; to reconcile oneself to loss; to have no more illusions about
- to administer; to have jurisdiction (over)
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- to hand over
- to besiege; to beleaguer; to attack from all sides; to jointly speak or write against sb
- to stop; to obstruct; to bar the way
- to prevail; to have one's way; to get away with it
- to defend; to safeguard
- to harbor evil intentions (idiom)
- you might as well (do it); simply; just
- to work with a common purpose (idiom); to make concerted efforts; to pull together; to work as one
- cent; penny
- that very night; through the night; for several nights in a row
- devoted; loyal; fidelity; loyalty
- manor; feudal land; villa and park
- to dispose of; to spend (money); to undertake a task
- not able to keep up with
- to stagger along
- to fall down; to slip and fall; to throw sb to the ground
- safe; secure; safety; security
- to lose; to misplace
- 当头 dāng tóu: 当头 dang1 tou2: coming right into one's face; imminent; to put first当头 dàng tou: 当头 dang4 tou5: (coll.) pledge; surety