Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to catch up with; to keep pace with
- Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
- to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
- to mix with others; to socialize; to deal with; to contend
- grain transported by water (in ancient times)
- see 鹽城市|盐城市[Yan2 cheng2 Shi4]
- destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about; displaced
- to have a high notion of one's duty; to be highly principled
- optimistic; sanguine; generous; magnanimous; open-minded
- pragmatic; flexible; to act differently in different situations; to accommodate to circumstances
- Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
- to capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
- 受累 shòu lěi: 受累 shou4 lei3: to get dragged into; to get involved (on sb else's account)受累 shòu lèi: 受累 shou4 lei4: to be put to a lot of trouble
- to accompany
- to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife
- peaceful; restful; quiet; still
- to guide; to lead
- to guard; to protect
- belt; band; ribbon; strap; girdle; (coll.) audio or video tape; Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri); comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata)
- to flee; to go into exile
- things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom)
- to approach; to press in
- to issue; to proclaim; to enact (laws, decrees etc)
- (idiom) everyone is anxious; (of a group of people) to feel anxious
- to lose one's head out of fear (idiom)
- to befall
- talent (usually literary or artistic)
- to conclude (an agreement)
- good karma; opportune connection with marriage partner
- to do as one pleases; to not inconvenience oneself
- to count on; to rely on
- wife and children; (old) wife
- to encumber; to be a burden on; to implicate
- if; supposing; in case
- seawater
- to start on a journey; to be on one's way
- to toss about in bed; from person to person; indirectly; to wander
- desolate; deserted; out-of-the-way