Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time)
- the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles); prime minister
- imperial edict
- hardworking; diligent
- bow and arrow
- cutting tool
- to go forward; to forge ahead; to advance; onward
- withered; wilted; to wither; to fade; to decay
- untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
- wife of father's elder brother; aunt; (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother); CL:個|个[ge4]
- filial; dutiful; devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc); to show filial piety towards (an older family member); filial piety
- to station; to garrison (troops)
- (idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated
- to use fully; to put to use
- dispirited; dejected; dismayed
- long and difficult trek
- to travel far away from home
- intimate; close; considerate
- good and bad luck (in astrology)
- smoothly; without a hitch
- unavoidable; can't be avoided
- wife
- to prevent; to avoid; to excuse; to exempt; to relieve; (of a debt) to remit
- disaster
- fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- wizard; magician
- to ask oneself honestly; to search in one's heart
- (idiom) not amenable to reason; unreasonable
- remorse; repentance
- 延长 Yán cháng: 延长 Yan2 chang2: see 延長縣|延长县[Yan2 chang2 Xian4]延长 yán cháng: 延长 yan2 chang2: to prolong; to extend; to delay
- to bother; to disturb; to vex
- auspicious day; good day; happy life
- to tell; to instruct; to command
- couldn't be better; ideal; wonderful
- rainy season
- to save; to rescue
- cadence; rhythm; rhyme scheme; meter (in verse); (linguistics) prosody
- to not calculate; to not count; to not be considered (as); to have no weight
- to bear; to support; to inherit
- to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom); to fall ill from constant overwork
- quack; charlatan