Vocabulary: 前言 一
from 白居易诗选
- 作为x1 | Chapter Rank #523one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- 始终x2 | Chapter Rank #156from beginning to end; all along
- 没有x4 | Chapter Rank #37haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- 诗歌创作x1 | Chapter Rank #524
- 蓄意x1 | Chapter Rank #525deliberate; premeditated; malice
- 未果x1 | Chapter Rank #526to fail to eventuate; (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing
- 望风x1 | Chapter Rank #527to be on the lookout; to keep watch
- 当x2 | Chapter Rank #157(onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at
- 所x3 | Chapter Rank #74actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 挤x1 | Chapter Rank #528to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule)
- 流徙x1 | Chapter Rank #529
- 江湖x1 | Chapter Rank #530rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 四五x1 | Chapter Rank #531
- 几x1 | Chapter Rank #532small table(literary) almosthow many; how much; several; a few
- 沦x1 | Chapter Rank #533to sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to
- 蛮x1 | Chapter Rank #534barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
- 瘴x1 | Chapter Rank #535malaria; miasma
- 宦x1 | Chapter Rank #536surname Huanimperial official; court eunuch
- 情x1 | Chapter Rank #537(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
- 衰落x1 | Chapter Rank #538to fall; to drop; to decline; to deteriorate; to go downhill
- 无意x1 | Chapter Rank #539inadvertent; accidental; to have no intention of (doing sth)
- 出处x1 | Chapter Rank #540source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion); origin; where sth comes from
- 唯x1 | Chapter Rank #541yesonly; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义[zhu3 yi4] or 論|论[lun4], e.g. 唯理論|唯理论[wei2 li3 lun4], rationalism)
- 逍遥自得x2 | Chapter Rank #158doing as one pleases (idiom); foot-loose and fancy free
- 吟咏x1 | Chapter Rank #542to recite; to sing (of poetry)
- 情性x1 | Chapter Rank #543
- 旧唐书x2 | Chapter Rank #159History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
- 后期x2 | Chapter Rank #160late stage; later period
- 很少x1 | Chapter Rank #544
- 再x1 | Chapter Rank #545again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 但x1 | Chapter Rank #546but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 诗歌x1 | Chapter Rank #547poem; CL:本[ben3],首[shou3],段[duan4]
- 依然x1 | Chapter Rank #548still; as before
- 一些x1 | Chapter Rank #549some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- 关怀x1 | Chapter Rank #550care; solicitude; to show care for; concerned about; attentive to
- 人民x2 | Chapter Rank #161the people
- 疾苦x1 | Chapter Rank #551pain and difficulties; suffering (of the people)
- 诗篇x2 | Chapter Rank #162a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms
- 表明x1 | Chapter Rank #552to make clear; to make known; to state clearly; to indicate; known
- 并x1 | Chapter Rank #553and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to mergeto combine; to amalgamateshort name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- 忘记x1 | Chapter Rank #554to forget
- 民众x2 | Chapter Rank #163the populace; the masses; the common people
- 苦难x1 | Chapter Rank #555suffering
- 表现x1 | Chapter Rank #556to show; to show off; to display; to manifest; expression; manifestation; show; display; performance (at work etc); behavior
- 得x1 | Chapter Rank #557structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etcto have to; must; ought to; to need toto obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finishedused in 得瑟[de4 se5]
- 最x1 | Chapter Rank #558(before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est; (after 之[zhi1]) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最[shi4 jie4 zhi1 zui4] "the greatest in the world")
- 多x2 | Chapter Rank #164many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 诗酒风流x1 | Chapter Rank #559
- 知命不忧x1 | Chapter Rank #560
- 情感x1 | Chapter Rank #561feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally)