Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- firm; stable and steady
- blemish; flaw; defect
- progress; improvement; to improve; to progress
- reincarnation or transmigration (Buddhism)
- (of fruit) fully ripe; overripe; (of food) cooked until very soft; to know thoroughly; to be thoroughly familiar with
- character
- gesture; sign; signal
- beach; sandy shore; CL:片[pian4]
- to forecast; to predict
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- blind
- lit. to have one's nose in the air (idiom); fig. arrogant; haughty
- Jigong or Daoji (1130-1207), Southern Song Dynasty Buddhist monk
- to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc); an inscription
- the sun sets in the west (idiom)
- to add; to increase
- a nip in the air; chilliness
- (idiom) (of water) shimmering with ripples; glistening
- to appear; to emerge; to surface
- Meng Haoran (689-740), Tang Dynasty Poet
- daybreak; dawn
- to play the zither
- lone; lonely; loneliness
- folding fan
- comb; CL:把[ba3]
- layer upon layer
- beautiful image of a woman
- to feast one's eyes on (idiom)
- old friends
- handkerchief; CL:方[fang1]
- belt; CL:條|条[tiao2],根[gen1]
- wet nurse
- to carry; to take away
- (of wind etc) to subside; to die down; to quell; to smooth over (a dispute etc); to suppress (a rebellion etc)
- to act as go-between (between prospective marriage partners etc)
- engagement; wedding contract
- to cut off; to isolate; isolated (from the world)