Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- 玉山 Yù Shān: 玉山 Yu4 Shan1: Mount Yu, the highest mountain in Taiwan (3952 m)玉山 Yù shān: 玉山 Yu4 shan1: see 玉山縣|玉山县[Yu4 shan1 Xian4]
- poetry circles; poetry world
- 名家 Míng jiā: 名家 Ming2 jia1: School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names名家 míng jiā: 名家 ming2 jia1: renowned expert; master (of an art or craft)
- to wait to fill a vacancy; reserve (candidate); alternate; substitute
- local magistrate
- prince; son of a king
- sideroom; concubine
- to be published; to come out
- outset; beginning
- to praise; to acclaim
- famous piece of writing
- genre of writing; literary form; style; literary recreation and sporting activities
- to blend heterogeneous elements (from different sources, systems, styles or genres); (linguistics) to combine incompatible sentence patterns, resulting in awkward or unclear expression
- to admire; to look up to; to respect sb greatly
- hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist
- to offer respectfully; to consecrate; to dedicate; to devote
- (idiom) to become emaciated from grief, esp. while mourning the death of a parent
- father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
- deferential; respectful
- bed curtain; coverlet
- character; moral strength; integrity; (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing
- learning; knowledge; scholarship; a body of specialized knowledge (CL:門|门[men2]); (fig.) any activity that demands expertise, skill or experience (e.g. gathering forensic evidence, selecting clothing, managing relationships)
- as everyone can appreciate (idiom); clear to all; unarguable
- heartbeat; heart rate; (fig.) emotionally affected; aroused (of desire, emotion, interest etc)
- in opposition to; separated from
- (literary) to hold (in the hand); to challenge; to provoke
- nymphalid; butterfly
- flying in pairs; close union as husband and wife; round-trip flight; (slang) threesome
- to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
- to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party
- happy
- man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature