Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to borrow or lend money; debit and credit items on a balance sheet
- to act as surety for sb; to be sb's guarantor; to stand bail for sb
- to appear; present; now; existing; current
- to demand payment; to extort; to trace; to seek; to pursue; to explore
- to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- father and son
- voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self-
- to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open
- (honorific) your mother
- old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents
- 姬 Jī: 姬 Ji1: surname Ji; family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代[Zhou1 dai4] (1046–256 BC)姬 jī: 姬 ji1: woman; concubine; female entertainer (archaic)
- to recover (from illness)
- to enjoin; to implore; to urge
- to be in season; seasonal
- 扬 Yáng: 扬 Yang2: abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] in Jiangsu; surname Yang扬 yáng: 扬 yang2: to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate
- to avoid responsibility; to shift the responsibility onto others; (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement)
- (bound form) to put in order; to arrange properly; circumspect; well-behaved; to give (sb) an order
- to borrow money
- to slander; to defame; to misrepresent; to speak maliciously
- to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
- husband's younger brother; brother-in-law
- absurd; irrational
- specialist; person appointed for specific task
- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- popular feeling; the will of the people
- lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom); fig. a bolt from the blue
- 肃 Sù: 肃 Su4: surname Su肃 sù: 肃 su4: respectful; solemn; to eliminate; to clean up
- to admit guilt; to plead guilty
- 骑 jì: 骑 ji4: (Tw) saddle horse; mounted soldier骑 qí: 骑 qi2: to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
- to hurry; to go to and fro
- short-sightedness; suicide (esp. in 尋短見|寻短见[xun2 duan3 jian4])
- the whole course of an event from beginning to end; ins and outs; the fundamental and the incidental
- family member; (old) servant
- to sever all relations with sb; determined; decisive
- to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out
- lies; wild talk; to tell lies; to talk nonsense; fantasy (literature)
- 阿 ā: 阿 a1: prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration; (bound form) Afghanistan (abbr. for 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]); (bound form) Albania (abbr. for 阿爾巴尼亞|阿尔巴尼亚[A1 er3 ba1 ni2 ya4]); (bound form) Algeria (abbr. for 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4]); (bound form) Argentina (abbr. for 阿根廷[A1 gen1 ting2]); also pr. [a4]阿 ē: 阿 e1: (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
- to forgive
- ignorant; ignorance
- (literary) handwritten instruction from a superior or elder
- refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment; not be too hard on subject
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
- south of the five ranges; old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi
- former home