Vocabulary: 前言 一
from 白居易诗选
- 都x3 | Chapter Rank #68capital city; metropolisall; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at allsurname Du
- 拜x3 | Chapter Rank #69to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- 苏州x2 | Chapter Rank #142see 蘇州市|苏州市[Su1 zhou1 Shi4]
- 病x3 | Chapter Rank #70illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect
- 免x2 | Chapter Rank #143to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited
- 文宗x1 | Chapter Rank #446(literary) writer whose works are venerated as exemplary; eminent writerWenzong Emperor, reign name of Yuan Dynasty emperor Tugh Temür (1304-1332), reigned 1328-1332
- 立x1 | Chapter Rank #447surname Lito stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately
- 监x1 | Chapter Rank #448to supervise; to inspect; jail; prison(bound form) supervisor; supervisory office (in imperial China)
- 召x1 | Chapter Rank #449surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Provinceto call together; to summon; to convene; temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)
- 迁x1 | Chapter Rank #450to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
- 刑部侍郎x1 | Chapter Rank #451
- 封x1 | Chapter Rank #452surname Fengto confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- 晋阳x1 | Chapter Rank #453
- 县x1 | Chapter Rank #454county; (Japan) prefecture
- 男x1 | Chapter Rank #455(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- 大x2 | Chapter Rank #144big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- 初x4 | Chapter Rank #35(bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- 党x1 | Chapter Rank #456party; association; club; society; CL:個|个[ge4]surname Dang
- 兴x1 | Chapter Rank #457feeling or desire to do sth; interest in sth; excitementsurname Xingto rise; to flourish; to become popular; to start; to encourage; to get up; (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect); maybe (dialect)
- 险x1 | Chapter Rank #458danger; dangerous; rugged
- 利x1 | Chapter Rank #459sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefitsurname Li
- 乘x1 | Chapter Rank #460surname Chengto ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed(archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four; generic term for history books
- 更x1 | Chapter Rank #461to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)more; even more; further; still; still more
- 相x1 | Chapter Rank #462each 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])surname Xiangappearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
- 夺x1 | Chapter Rank #463to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose
- 移x2 | Chapter Rank #145to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove
- 进退x1 | Chapter Rank #464to advance or retreat; knowing when to come and when to leave; a sense of propriety
- 毁誉x1 | Chapter Rank #465
- 旦暮x1 | Chapter Rank #466
- 然x1 | Chapter Rank #467correct; right; so; thus; like this; -ly
- 杨x3 | Chapter Rank #71surname Yangpoplar
- 虞x2 | Chapter Rank #146(literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive; (literary) to deceive; to dupesurname Yu
- 卿x2 | Chapter Rank #147high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)
- 居易x6 | Chapter Rank #20
- 姻家x1 | Chapter Rank #468
- 善x2 | Chapter Rank #148good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- 李宗闵x2 | Chapter Rank #149
- 恶x1 | Chapter Rank #469to hate; to loathe; ashamed; to fear; to slanderused in 惡心|恶心[e3 xin1]evil; fierce; vicious; ugly; coarse; to harm
- 缘x1 | Chapter Rank #470cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along
- 党人x2 | Chapter Rank #150party member; partisan
- 还x1 | Chapter Rank #471surname Huanstill; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; elseto pay back; to return
- 除x1 | Chapter Rank #472to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including
- 宾客x2 | Chapter Rank #151guests; visitors
- 逾x1 | Chapter Rank #473to exceed; to go beyond; to transcend; to cross over; to jump over
- 尹x1 | Chapter Rank #474(literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times)surname Yin
- 开成x1 | Chapter Rank #475
- 起x2 | Chapter Rank #152to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- 同x1 | Chapter Rank #476used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]like; same; similar; together; alike; withused in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- 不x4 | Chapter Rank #36no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 改x1 | Chapter Rank #477to change; to alter; to transform; to correct