Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- the self; oneself; self-; (psychology) ego
- to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content
- fatigue; wearily; weariness; weary
- filth; grime; stain; dirty; filthy
- to be worried
- to joke; joke; jest
- to fall and wither (like autumn leaves); (fig.) drifting and homeless
- stealthily; secretly; covertly; furtively; on the sly
- nonsense; ridiculous talk; hogwash
- (literary) (of a widower) to remarry
- to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth; to speak and break off, then start again; to hold sth back
- intelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth; to sit up and take notice (of sb's improved performance etc)
- conclusion; ending
- just by chance; to happen to (just at the right time); opportune
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- unrelenting; without stopping to rest
- to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- will; shall; to be going to
- to grieve over sb's death; to lament sb's death; mourning
- to swirl about; (of leaves and branches) to sway
- to esteem; to respect; to honor; to value; eminent; serious; proper
- born of the same parents; sibling; fellow citizen; compatriot
- former days; the past
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- to get married and start a career (idiom); to settle down; to establish oneself
- frivolous; superficial
- grave; tomb
- to be on summer vacation
- diligence; diligent; industrious
- to be familiar with; to know well
- to check; to verify
- to emit a sound; (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc; (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound