Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to take a risk out of desperation (idiom)
- 储 Chǔ: 储 Chu3: surname Chu; Taiwan pr. [Chu2]储 chǔ: 储 chu3: (bound form) to store up; to keep in reserve; heir to the throne; Taiwan pr. [chu2]
- to stop; repress
- to cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief; to fight fire with fire
- art of war; military strategy and tactics
- faithful and honest; loyal and sincere
- ominous; inauspicious
- to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind; ☴; ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
- virtuous person; a man of merit
- to regulate; to govern; to control; to mow
- to have tender affection for; to love tenderly; to pamper sb
- to mow or cut grass; hay; straw; fodder
- to confer on; to give to
- to be critically ill; to be terminally ill
- lit. spring sunshine; fig. parental (often maternal) love
- affection; friendly feelings towards sb; love
- (literary) (bound form) jealous
- jealousy; to be jealous of
- multicolored clouds
- katydid; long-horned grasshopper
- to rear; to raise (animals)
- official
- modern (loanword); fashionable
- 爰 Yuán: 爰 Yuan2: surname Yuan爰 yuán: 爰 yuan2: therefore; consequently; thus; hence; thereupon; it follows that; where?; to change (into); ancient unit of weight and money
- enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out
- glare; dazzling
- to consider; to ponder
- (of woman's hair) beautiful; flower garland worn as an ornament
- echo (e.g. radar); returning wave
- I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe; very likely
- to greet and usher in (guests, newcomers etc); (Buddhism) to receive into the Pure Land
- smilingly
- field; region; area; domain (taxonomy)
- oxen and horses; beasts of burden; (fig.) drudge; laborer