Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- the nether world; Hades; (neologism) (slang) disturbing; unsettling; awful; detestable
- ice-cold
- dew; fig. short-lasting; ephemeral
- strenuously; persistently; hard; painful
- orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness
- weather; unstable situation
- to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away
- azuki bean; red bean
- to pay a debt of gratitude; to repay a kindness
- used in 伶俜[ling2 ping1]
- 泠 Líng: 泠 Ling2: surname Ling泠 líng: 泠 ling2: sound of water flowing
- genteel
- original; former
- source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion); origin; where sth comes from
- Milky Way; also called 銀河|银河[Yin2 he2]
- (Buddhist) religious assembly
- see 靈山縣|灵山县[Ling2 shan1 Xian4]
- the nine springs; the underworld of Chinese mythology; Hades
- outside horses of a team of 4
- lasting for ages; long drawn out; remote in time or space; unhurried; a great number (of events); preposterous; pensive
- Islamic; Muslim; halal (of food); clean; pure
- to show oneself; to appear; (of a deity) to appear in the flesh
- unable to tolerate; intolerant; unable to bear sth
- blurred (landscape etc); low (spirits); in a slump (economy)
- to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify
- to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably
- commerce; trade