Vocabulary: 前言 一
from 白居易诗选
- 少傅x1 | Chapter Rank #478
- 冯翊县x1 | Chapter Rank #479
- 侯x1 | Chapter Rank #480surname Houmarquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; nobleman; high officialused in 閩侯|闽侯[Min3 hou4] (the name of a place in Fujian)
- 会昌x1 | Chapter Rank #481see 會昌縣|会昌县[Hui4 chang1 Xian4]
- 刑部x1 | Chapter Rank #482Ministry of Justice (in imperial China)
- 尚书x2 | Chapter Rank #153same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of Historyhigh official; government minister
- 致仕x1 | Chapter Rank #483to retire from a government post (old)
- 卒x1 | Chapter Rank #484soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- 赠x1 | Chapter Rank #485to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
- 右x1 | Chapter Rank #486(bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- 仆x1 | Chapter Rank #487to fall forward; to fall prostrateservant
- 射x1 | Chapter Rank #488to shoot; to launch; to allude to; radio- (chemistry)
- 宣x1 | Chapter Rank #489to declare (publicly); to announcesurname Xuan
- 宗x3 | Chapter Rank #72surname Zongschool; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
- 吊x1 | Chapter Rank #490to suspend; to hang up; to hang a persona string of 100 cash (arch.); to lament; to condole with
- 宏大x1 | Chapter Rank #491great; grand
- 抱负x1 | Chapter Rank #492aspiration; ambition
- 黑暗x1 | Chapter Rank #493dark; darkly; darkness
- 现实x1 | Chapter Rank #494reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- 面前x1 | Chapter Rank #495in front of; facing; (in the) presence (of)
- 不得不x1 | Chapter Rank #496have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- 放弃x2 | Chapter Rank #154to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- 自己的x1 | Chapter Rank #497
- 理想x1 | Chapter Rank #498an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- 时代x1 | Chapter Rank #499Time, US weekly news magazineage; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 对策x1 | Chapter Rank #500countermeasure for dealing with a situation
- 高x3 | Chapter Rank #73surname Gaohigh; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
- 第x1 | Chapter Rank #501(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- 翰林x1 | Chapter Rank #502refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
- 以为x1 | Chapter Rank #503to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- 遇见x2 | Chapter Rank #155to meet
- 千古x1 | Chapter Rank #504for all eternity; throughout all ages; eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
- 明x1 | Chapter Rank #505Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming; Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer Godbright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]; (of meaning) clear; to understand; next; public or open; wise; generic term for a sacrifice to the gods
- 君x1 | Chapter Rank #506monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- 抱x1 | Chapter Rank #507to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
- 幻想x1 | Chapter Rank #508to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- 意欲x1 | Chapter Rank #509to intend to; intention; desire
- 奋力x1 | Chapter Rank #510to do everything one can; to spare no effort; to strive
- 报效x1 | Chapter Rank #511render service to repay kindness
- 挫折x1 | Chapter Rank #512setback; reverse; check; defeat; frustration; disappointment; to frustrate; to discourage; to set sb back; to blunt; to subdue
- 改变x1 | Chapter Rank #513to change; to alter; to transform
- 人生态度x1 | Chapter Rank #514
- 自从x1 | Chapter Rank #515since (a time); ever since
- 沦落x1 | Chapter Rank #516to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging)
- 生命x1 | Chapter Rank #517life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- 值得x1 | Chapter Rank #518worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- 我们x1 | Chapter Rank #519we; us; ourselves; our
- 注意x1 | Chapter Rank #520to take note of; to pay attention to
- 这么x1 | Chapter Rank #521so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- 几点x1 | Chapter Rank #522what time?; when?