Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- everywhere
- to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech
- door of an inner room
- silent; to write from memory
- many; quite a few; a good number of
- soon; before long
- candle; (literary) to illuminate
- (bound form) cinders; ashes
- to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
- to remove; to take away
- fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
- custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular
- see 中元節|中元节[Zhong1 yuan2 jie2]
- (bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely
- to have a few (alcoholic) drinks (often implying a small party)
- 拟 nǐ: 拟 ni3: doubtful; suspicious; to emulate; to imitate拟 nǐ: 拟 ni3: to plan to; to draft (a plan); to imitate; to assess; to compare; pseudo-
- to invite; to request; to intercept; to solicit; to seek
- to have a few drinks; to drink to one's heart's content
- dark cloud
- (bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
- change countenance; worry
- wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn
- dull; dry
- to flicker; to flash on and off; to brighten and fade
- to comb; (bound form) a comb
- to weave; to knit
- 柳 lǐu: 柳 liu3: willow柳 Lǐu: 柳 Liu3: surname Liu
- dike; Taiwan pr. [ti2]
- 蓼 lù: 蓼 lu4: luxuriant growth蓼 liǎo: 蓼 liao3: polygonum; smartweed
- islet; bank
- to dispel anguish
- the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology); rhyme; appeal; charm; (literary) pleasant sound
- after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); from front to back; longitudinal; lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); (bound form) to release (a captive); to indulge; to leap up; (literary) even if
- to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- (speak) without thinking the matter through
- in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
- to rinse one's mouth with water; to gargle
- saliva
- 倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit