Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- can't help (doing sth); can't refrain from
- 毛 Máo: 毛 Mao2: surname Mao毛 máo: 毛 mao2: hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
- 骨 gū: 骨 gu1: used in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]; used in 骨朵[gu1 duo5]骨 gǔ: 骨 gu3: bone
- frightened
- to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct
- legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]); (old) stemmed cup or bowl
- (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy
- to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm
- 神 Shén: 神 Shen2: God神 shén: 神 shen2: god; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy; lively; expressive; look; expression; (coll.) awesome; amazing
- undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
- to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
- your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific); to erupt; to begin abruptly
- fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances
- (bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month (e.g. 上旬[shang4 xun2]); (bound form) ten years (in age expressions, e.g. 六旬[liu4 xun2] "sixty years old")
- what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...; (derog.) so-called
- disaster; calamity
- 兆 Zhào: 兆 Zhao4: surname Zhao兆 zhào: 兆 zhao4: (bound form) omen; to foretell; million; mega-; (Tw) trillion; tera-; (old) billion
- the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
- illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect
- half a year
- (loanword) shilling
- to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- idle person; idler; person who has no legitimate reason to be in a certain place
- in company with
- younger sister
- to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something; to help
- front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- to enter a door; to go in; to learn the basics of a subject; to join one's husband's household upon marriage
- 折 shé: 折 she2: to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)折 zhē: 折 zhe1: to turn sth over; to turn upside down; to tip sth out (of a container)折 zhé: 折 zhe2: to break; to fracture; to snap; to suffer loss; to bend; to twist; to turn; to change direction; convinced; to convert into (currency); discount; rebate; tenth (in price); classifier for theatrical scenes; to fold; accounts book折 zhé: 折 zhe2: to fold
- forest; forest tree
- fresh green
- pavilion; booth; kiosk; erect
- summit
- to follow; to adhere to; to abide by
- level; grade; rank; step (of stairs); CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier: step, level
- 周 Zhōu: 周 Zhou1: surname Zhou; Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)周 zhōu: 周 zhou1: to make a circuit; to circle; circle; circumference; lap; cycle; complete; all; all over; thorough; to help financially周 zhōu: 周 zhou1: week; weekly
- smoke from kitchen chimneys