Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- elm
- (old) impoverished scholar
- conflict; to conflict; clash of opposing forces; collision (of interests); contention
- golden age; heyday; period of peak prosperity
- unjust; unfair
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist; (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve
- formation; array; (fig.) ranks (as in "join the ranks of ...")
- to select the best
- talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- to give sufficient consideration to
- to imitate; to copy; to emulate; to mimic; model
- to draw on (others' experience); to learn from (how others do things); lesson to be learned (by observing others)
- base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
- pen and ink; words; writing
- delicate; fine; careful; meticulous; painstaking
- to have as its purpose; to be intended to; to aim to (do sth)
- to attach importance to sth; to value
- to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
- to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore
- (lit. and fig.) shadow; CL:道[dao4]
- inevitably
- (bound form) cocoon
- 缲 qiāo: 缲 qiao1: hem with invisible stitches缲 sāo: 缲 sao1: to reel silk from cocoons
- to cook; to boil
- to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
- to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
- red line
- 蓝 lán: 蓝 lan2: blue; indigo plant蓝 Lán: 蓝 Lan2: surname Lan
- blanket; rug
- soft; flexible
- cannot bear or stand; be unequal to; very; extremely
- to step on
- 罗 Lúo: 罗 Luo2: surname Luo罗 lúo: 罗 luo2: gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift
- socks; stockings