Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- (typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…|对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ...
- in the end; ultimately; after all
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- to witness; to see at first hand; to see with one's own eyes
- bright; devoted; having sth on one's mind; troubled
- to do with difficulty; to force sb to do sth; reluctant; barely enough
- weak; worried; sickly; wan
- heartbroken; inconsolable
- time and again; repeatedly; frequently
- to float in the air; swiftly; nimbly; easy and relaxed
- clouds and mist
- (literary) dangerous; perilous; (literary) almost; well-nigh
- the body (as opposed to the soul)
- tonic; supplement
- meditation
- (onom.) to sigh; to sob
- opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality
- front line
- to listen; to hear what sb says; news one has heard
- dark; deep; stupid; the underworld
- destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
- to worry about; to be concerned about
- 春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- powerless; lacking strength
- skeleton; skeletal remains
- to lay in place; to put; to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial
- both parents
- to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved grievances.)
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- intestines
- grief
- intermittent
- unable to speak; silent
- to gasp; to pant; asthma
- thus; so; like that; you; thou