Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to your heart's content
- scenic lakes and mountain (idiom); beautiful lake and mountain landscape
- early evening when lanterns are first lit
- to play around; to disport oneself
- to express (an emotion); to give vent
- feelings; mood
- to shed tears; to weep
- considerably; much; quite a bit
- older brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate
- lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom); fig. to be principled and incorruptible
- really; after all; details; particulars
- to persuade; to exhort; to advise
- etiquette; ceremony
- rich and fertile
- an all-seeing mind; mental perception; insight; acumen
- to gather (in a crowd); to converge; to swarm
- to listen (respectfully)
- one by one; in turn
- Jiang Shiquan (1725-1784), Qing poet, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家
- sister's son; wife's sibling's son
- to approve of; to endorse; to acknowledge; to recognize; to identify oneself with
- to guess correctly; to figure out the right answer
- (courteous) to read respectfully
- muddy; covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc); daubed in
- the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket; lapel
- to brush; to caress (of breeze); to praise
- a book on the art of war
- incorruptible; unbribable; honest
- to bring under control; to regulate; to restore to good condition; (coll.) to fix (a person); to prepare (a meal etc)
- evil tyrant
- to prohibit; to forbid; to ban
- savage act; outrage; atrocity
- (idiom) to rid the people of a scourge
- qualified; competent (professionally); to be up to a task
- to submit a report to the king; to talk to the king
- scholar
- to break the law
- disaster; calamity
- to offer; to supply; to provide; to furnish
- to give in charity; to give alms (to the poor)