Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to depart this life; to be no more
- Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name 顒琰|颙琰[Yong2 yan3], reigned 1796-1820
- to look up and see no-one familiar (idiom); not having anyone to rely on; without a friend in the world
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- continuous; uninterrupted
- why; how; when; what; where
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- to sell off (one's property)
- to prepare a dead body for coffin
- alas; alack; welladay; wellaway; to die
- (derog.) woman
- bosom (the seat of emotions); one's mind
- ability and insight
- to run; to rush about; to be on the go
- clothes and food
- to lack; to be short of
- detailed; fine and meticulous
- to separate; to divide; to analyze
- disease; sickness; ailment
- illogical
- 赍 jī: 赍 ji1: to present (a gift); to harbor (a feeling)赍 jī: 赍 ji1: (literary) to harbor (a feeling); (literary) to present as a gift
- 没 mò: 没 mo4: drowned; to end; to die; to inundate没 méi: 没 mei2: (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
- good friend; companion
- may I offer a bit of advice
- 仇 qíu: 仇 qiu2: spouse; companion仇 chóu: 仇 chou2: hatred; animosity; enmity; foe; enemy; to feel animosity toward (the wealthy, foreigners etc)仇 Qíu: 仇 Qiu2: surname Qiu
- as the saying goes...
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- the remaining people
- lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom); fig. lesson learned from past mistakes or failures
- 煞 shà: 煞 sha4: fiend; demon; very; (Tw) SARS (loanword)煞 shā: 煞 sha1: to terminate; to cut short; to bring to a stop; to squeeze; to tighten; to damage
- to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline); to install (wiring, cable); to construct (road, concrete slab)
- to be just like
- (of a deceased) during one's life; while living
- to look forward and back cautiously
- to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- gaze; insight; foresight; vision; way of looking at things
- course of action; method of doing sth; practice; modus operandi