Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- trick; drama; play; show; CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2]
- to ridicule; to mock
- seeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself; taking things easily without attending to responsibilities
- as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence; in a drunken stupor
- frequently; constantly; regularly; often; day-to-day; everyday; daily
- feast; celebration
- like that; in that way; to that extent; (before a number) ... or so; about ...; then; in that case
- to surrender (of a fortress); to fall (to the enemy); subsidence (of land)
- (a feeling of) shame
- on the contrary; instead
- (of food or a pleasant activity) to accompany drinks; to enhance the experience of consuming alcohol
- to find amusement; to amuse oneself
- comedic material; (in reference to a person) laughingstock; butt of jokes
- to degrade; to degenerate; to become depraved; corrupt; a fall from grace
- shameful; disgraceful; ignominious
- (usu. pejorative) conduct; behavior; act; path; trail
- patriotism
- sentiments; feelings; disposition of mind; moral character
- to insert; to stick in; to plug in
- what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...; (derog.) so-called
- filling the atmosphere; covering the sky
- tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing) (bound form) disk; to coil (a rope, pigtail etc); to check; to examine; to investigate; to transfer; to sell (property); to shift; to move (sth big and heavy); classifier for things resembling a plate or dish; classifier for coils; classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- vigor of strokes in calligraphy or drawing; vigor of style in literary composition
- haughty; vigorous
- to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- 俊 zùn: 俊 zun4: (dialectal pronunciation of 俊[jun4]); cool; neat俊 jùn: 俊 jun4: smart; eminent; handsome; talented
- 围 Wéi: 围 Wei2: surname Wei围 wéi: 围 wei2: to encircle; to surround; all around; to wear by wrapping around (scarf, shawl)
- to die of old age
- to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
- beam; rafter; lintel; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
- luck; to create the universe; god (as the creator of all things); the Creator
- material; timber; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)
- statute; constitution
- Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓[Dong3 Zhuo2] to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布[Lu:3 Bu4]
- relative superiority (better or worse, stronger or weaker, above or below etc)
- (literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different; (bound form) special; remarkable; (literary) very; extremely
- not necessarily; maybe not
- to be stupid; to cheat or deceive; me or I (modest)
- coral
- the sky; the heavens