Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to fail to show up for work
- from then on; after; afterwards; thereafter
- wife's younger brother
- to die in a foreign land; to die abroad
- short name for Shanghai
- disrespectful; (literary) ditch
- (literary) to weep in silence
- heavy rain
- to lose sb one relies upon; to lose one's mother
- (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
- one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth); biological (parents); birth (parents)
- only (classical, usually follows negative or question words); (not) just
- mixed feelings of grief and joy
- not only; not merely
- jest; nickname
- in front of; in the presence of
- tomb
- summer vacation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to annotate (ancient texts); commentaries
- old illness; former affliction
- litchi
- 亹 wěi: 亹 wei3: resolute亹 mén: 亹 men2: mountain pass; defile (archaic)
- ancient books or records
- to investigate; to study
- classical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth
- Kaoshu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
- 湛 zhàn: 湛 zhan4: deep; clear (water)湛 Zhàn: 湛 Zhan4: surname Zhan
- startled
- to complete; to prepare
- (of wind and rain) howling and pounding; (of light rain) pattering
- pigeon; dove
- Western medicine; a doctor trained in Western medicine
- desire for good food