Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
- 落叶归根 Lùo yè gūi gēn: 落叶归根 Luo4 ye4 gui1 gen1: Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[Zhang1 Yang2], starring 趙本山|赵本山[Zhao4 Ben3 shan1]落叶归根 lùo yè gūi gēn: 落叶归根 luo4 ye4 gui1 gen1: lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); fig. all things go back to their source eventually; in old age, an expatriate returns home
- mother and father; parents
- Allium bakeri; shallot; scallion
- (literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition
- soaked; to wet; to drench; Taiwan pr. [jia2]
- facial cleansing
- to shed tears of gratitude (idiom); moved to tears
- the dead; the deceased
- see 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 Shi4]
- see 廣平縣|广平县[Guang3 ping2 Xian4]
- abundant; ample; at ease; relaxed; to free from; to relieve
- a person's status
- to rarely have; rare
- to give in return
- 茜 qiàn: 茜 qian4: (bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red; dark red; alizarin crimson茜 xī: 茜 xi1: used in the transliteration of people's names
- to write a flawless essay in one go (idiom); to be quick-witted and skilled at writing compositions
- whole audience; a sellout (capacity audience); jam-packed
- lit. etched into one's heart and bones (idiom); fig. etched in one's memory; remembered with gratitude as long as one lives
- who would have thought?; who could have imagined?; unexpectedly
- older sister; Taiwan pr. [jie3 jie5]
- mother's sister; aunt
- to give to the needy; to bestow alms; charity
- to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex (idiom)
- 厕 sì: 厕 si4: used in 茅廁|茅厕[mao2 si5]厕 cè: 厕 ce4: (bound form) restroom; toilet; lavatory; (literary) to be mingled with; to be involved in
- region south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, esp. central Anhui Province; see 淮南市[Huai2 nan2 Shi4]
- to learn to walk; (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress; to get started on the learning curve
- (literary) how many; quite a few
- see 扶風縣|扶风县[Fu2 feng1 Xian4]
- to shed tears; to be all in tears
- to love sth too much to part with it (idiom)
- the full picture (i.e. the whole situation); panorama
- (lit.) to pass through one's hands; (fig.) to handle; to deal with
- (literary) to end; to stop; one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词[ci2]; classifier for songs or ci poems
- ruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool; hip
- to raise resources