Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- beautiful woman; fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals; (polite) sb else's daughter; Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
- to regulate the family and rule the state (idiom)
- textbook
- to rent land; to lease farmland
- deputy
- civil and military
- prime minister (in ancient China)
- to seize; to apprehend; an arrest
- the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- (often pejorative) trusted aide; confidant; to put one's trust in (sb)
- the Way of the King; statecraft; benevolent rule; virtuous as opposed to the Way of Hegemon 霸道
- ignorant and backward
- (idiom) beauty of helping others succeed; act of helping sb fulfill their wish
- public opinion
- to be suffering from an illness (often implying "in spite of being sick"); to carry the causative agent of an infectious disease
- steady; stable; sedate; calm; (of sleep) sound; (of a transition) smooth
- Hua Tuo (c. 145–208), physician of the Eastern Han dynasty
- to raise; to increase
- good deeds
- to separate (married couple); to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
- to suffer from insomnia
- aspiration; wish (for); desire
- honest; uncorrupted
- scanty; meager
- official's salary (in feudal times)
- to be engaged in politics (esp. as a government official)
- to appreciate; to recognize the worth of sth; appreciation
- seventy; 70
- the ways of the world; the morals of the time
- to support a family; to raise a family
- to look upon; to take a fancy to; to fall for
- (fig.) malevolent; treacherous