Vocabulary: 琵琶行
from 白居易诗选
- 对照x1 | Chapter Rank #482to contrast; to compare; to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts); to check
- 描摹x1 | Chapter Rank #483to trace over; to take a copy (of a calligraphy, a painting etc); (fig.) to describe; to portray
- 出类拔萃x1 | Chapter Rank #484to excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent; outstanding
- 造诣x1 | Chapter Rank #485level of mastery (of a skill or area of knowledge); (archaic) to pay a visit to sb
- 全篇x1 | Chapter Rank #486
- 关键x1 | Chapter Rank #487crucial point; crux; CL:個|个[ge4]; key; crucial; pivotal
- 塑造x1 | Chapter Rank #488to model; to mold; (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc); (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words)
- 两x2 | Chapter Rank #198two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- 个x2 | Chapter Rank #199(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individualused in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]
- 人物形象x1 | Chapter Rank #489
- 故伎x1 | Chapter Rank #490usual trick; old tactics
- 封建x1 | Chapter Rank #491system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic
- 官吏x1 | Chapter Rank #492bureaucrat; official
- 同情x1 | Chapter Rank #493to sympathize with; sympathy
- 理解x1 | Chapter Rank #494to comprehend; to understand
- 主动x1 | Chapter Rank #495to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: passive 被動|被动[bei4 dong4]; drive (of gears and shafts etc)
- 把x1 | Chapter Rank #496to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})handle
- 自己x1 | Chapter Rank #497oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 处于x1 | Chapter Rank #498to be in (some state, position, or condition)
- 下层x1 | Chapter Rank #499underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate
- 伎x4 | Chapter Rank #42artistry; talent; skill; (in ancient times) female entertainer
- 相提并论x1 | Chapter Rank #500to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms; to place on a par with; (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y)
- 引x3 | Chapter Rank #86to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- 以为x1 | Chapter Rank #501to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- 知音x1 | Chapter Rank #502intimate friend; soul mate
- 这x1 | Chapter Rank #503(coll.) this(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- 中国x1 | Chapter Rank #504China
- 诗史x1 | Chapter Rank #505
- 上x1 | Chapter Rank #506used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1](bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- 不多见x1 | Chapter Rank #507
- 沈德潜x1 | Chapter Rank #508
- 写x1 | Chapter Rank #509used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]to write
- 同病相怜x2 | Chapter Rank #200fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company
- 恻x2 | Chapter Rank #201sorrowful
- 唐诗x1 | Chapter Rank #510Tang poetry; a Tang poem
- 裁x1 | Chapter Rank #511to cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim; to reduce; to diminish; to cut back (e.g. on staff); decision; judgment
- 集x1 | Chapter Rank #512to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode
- 唐宋x1 | Chapter Rank #513the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties
- 醇x1 | Chapter Rank #514alcohol; wine with high alcohol content; rich; pure; good wine; sterols
- 云x1 | Chapter Rank #515(classical) to saysurname Yun; short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2]cloud; CL:朵[duo3]
- 满腔x1 | Chapter Rank #516one's heart filled with; full of (joy)
- 借x1 | Chapter Rank #517to borrow; (used in combination with 給|给[gei3] or 出[chu1] etc) to lend; to make use of; to avail oneself of; (sometimes followed by 著|着[zhe5]) by; with
- 商x1 | Chapter Rank #518Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shangcommerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)
- 焉x1 | Chapter Rank #519where; how
- 比兴x1 | Chapter Rank #520
- 相x1 | Chapter Rank #521appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)surname Xiangeach other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])
- 纬x1 | Chapter Rank #522latitude; woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft
- 寄托x2 | Chapter Rank #202to entrust (to sb); to place (one's hope, energy etc) in; a thing in which one invests (one's hope, energy etc)
- 遥x2 | Chapter Rank #203(bound form) distant; remote; far away
- 深x2 | Chapter Rank #204(lit. and fig.) deep