Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- short, simple literary or artistic creation; essay; skit
- to originate; to initiate; beginning; origin
- after this; afterwards; hereafter
- 间 jiān: 间 jian1: between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms间 jiàn: 间 jian4: gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent
- 秋 qīu: 秋 qiu1: autumn; fall; harvest time秋 Qīu: 秋 Qiu1: surname Qiu秋 qīu: 秋 qiu1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- lamp; light; lantern; CL:盞|盏[zhan3]
- fragmentary; trifling
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- nature; characteristic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- identical; same
- masterpiece; fine piece of writing
- unceasing; uninterrupted; continuous; constant
- to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate
- large quantities of
- to long for; to look forward to
- beautiful; fine
- reader
- 从 Cóng: 从 Cong2: surname Cong从 cóng: 从 cong2: from; through; via; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey; (bound form) to engage in (an activity); (used before a negative) ever; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
- creator; author
- angle; (fig.) point of view
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 看 kān: 看 kan1: to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard看 kàn: 看 kan4: to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for
- work (of art); opus; CL:部[bu4],篇[pian1]
- author; writer
- main; principal; major; primary
- to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- Jiangsu and Zhejiang (abbr. for 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1] + 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1])
- region; area
- region of China immediately south of the lower Yangtze River, including Shanghai and adjoining parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang; see 江南省[Jiang1 nan2 Sheng3]; see 江南區|江南区[Jiang1 nan2 Qu1]
- (since) ancient times; (from) time immemorial
- humanities; culture; humanistic
- (bound form) country; nation; state
- plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- there; that place
- economy; economic
- well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
- to rear; to bring up; to nurture
- numerous
- nature; temperament
- elegant; refined; in good taste
- thought; thinking; idea; ideology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
- to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from
- cultivated individual; scholar; literati
- they; them
- to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom