Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- (literary) small boat; skiff
- remarkable; outstanding
- noble and clean-living; lofty and unsullied
- used in 琥珀[hu3 po4]
- to speak out; to declare (one's view)
- to look at; to see; to see (a doctor); to visit
- to reveal (indirectly, implicitly); to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
- to meet with (sb who is paying a visit); CL:次[ci4]
- period; phase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to breed; to flourish; to cause; to provoke; to create
- to afford (a magnificent view etc); to become (a prevailing fashion etc)
- exotic flower; (fig.) marvel; prodigy; (slang) weirdo; outlandish
- to suppress; to restrain
- to be drowned (figurative and literal)
- deep, closed and refusing (idiom); obstinate; stubborn and perverse
- (of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom; (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
- to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task
- not clear; unknown; to fail to understand
- if; supposing that; leisurely
- (rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
- quickly; at once
- lover; sweetheart
- gargantuan; as big as the sky; enormous
- hardy; able to resist hardship
- woman; woman's headdress (ancient)
- concubine
- lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y)
- to publicize; to advertise; to spread far and wide
- (idiomatic usage) with great difficulty; to have a hard time (convincing sb, relinquishing sth etc); (literal usage) so easy
- to peep at; to spy on; to peek
- to put oneself in sb else's shoes
- to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)