Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- Hui-zi also known as Hui Shi 惠施[Hui4 Shi1] (c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- similar to; like
- any; arbitrary; at will; at random
- minus; to subtract
- (idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice
- disaster; harm; scourge; bad person; to damage; to harm; to wreck
- Emperor Taizu of Song, posthumous title of the founding Song emperor Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 (927-976), reigned from 960
- to want to say sth but then hesitate
- minor illness; indisposition
- Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties
- (of a half-sibling) having the same father but different mother
- friendship; camaraderie
- to correct; to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision); to cure; rectification; correction; to straighten
- funny; ridiculous
- beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly
- Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝|周朝[Zhou1 chao2], located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1], birthplace of Confucius
- (literary) to hold high
- natural mother; birth mother
- stepmother
- cotton-padded clothes; CL:件[jian4]
- to live far away from one's native place; to reside in a foreign country
- untiring; not recognizing tiredness
- bottom of one's heart
- to esteem; to think highly of; to accord importance to; to revere
- 琅 láng: 琅 lang2: jade-like stone; clean and white; tinkling of pendants琅 Láng: 琅 Lang2: used in 瑯琊|琅琊[Lang2 ya2]
- used in place names, notably 瑯琊山|琅琊山[Lang2 ya2 Shan1]; Taiwan pr. [ye2]
- ancient official title
- to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to take revenge for a past insult; to expunge a disgrace or humiliation
- Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
- to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命); CL:次[ci4]
- to return to one's home country