Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- anxiety; sympathy; to sympathize; to give relief; to compensate
- to guard against
- to swallow one's cries
- 仰 Yǎng: 仰 Yang3: surname Yang仰 yǎng: 仰 yang3: to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on
- to complain; to sue; to tell
- wife and child
- (since) ancient times; (from) time immemorial
- injustice; grievance; wrong
- Tubo or Tufan, old name for Tibet; the Tibetan Tubo dynasty 7th-11th century AD; also pr. [Tu3 fan1]
- to inscribe a poem (often, composed on the spot) on a painting, fan or ceramic bowl etc as a work of calligraphy; an inscribed poem
- to clutch; to grab; to capture
- mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃[Nu:3 wa2] of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[Yan2 di4]
- rush; reed; Phragmites communis
- to drizzle; sea
- same as 渤海[Bo2 Hai3], Bohai Sea between Liaoning and Shandong; Gulf of Zhili or Chihli
- a few; several; how many
- captive
- unhelpful; useless
- to take an alternate route (idiom); to find an alternative; to take a different approach; to blaze a new trail
- to tread on; to trample; to stamp; to fulfill; Taiwan pr. [dao4]
- the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
- Han Chinese person or people
- peculiar; unusual; queer
- to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve)
- concluding remarks
- to laugh in spite of oneself; to be unable to help laughing; to break into laughter
- to capture alive
- states of south China in different historical periods; proverbially perpetual arch-enemies
- to advance; forward motion
- en route
- to look back; to review
- one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
- to recount; to tell of; to relate; (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)
- to invade and occupy (territory)
- enemy occupied territory
- to exist; to survive
- alone; by oneself
- to seek shelter; to seek asylum