Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- to 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
- to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove
- to advance or retreat; knowing when to come and when to leave; a sense of propriety
- correct; right; so; thus; like this; -ly
- 杨 yáng: 杨 yang2: poplar杨 Yáng: 杨 Yang2: surname Yang
- 虞 yú: 虞 yu2: (literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive; (literary) to deceive; to dupe虞 Yú: 虞 Yu2: surname Yu
- high 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)
- good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- 恶 ě: 恶 e3: used in 惡心|恶心[e3 xin1]恶 è: 恶 e4: evil; fierce; vicious; ugly; coarse; to harm恶 wù: 恶 wu4: to hate; to loathe; ashamed; to fear; to slander
- cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along
- party member; partisan
- 还 hái: 还 hai2: still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else还 huán: 还 huan2: to pay back; to return还 Huán: 还 Huan2: surname Huan
- to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including
- guests; visitors
- to exceed; to go beyond; to transcend; to cross over; to jump over
- 尹 yǐn: 尹 yin3: (literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times)尹 Yǐn: 尹 Yin3: surname Yin
- to 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 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]同 tóng: 同 tong2: like; same; similar; together; alike; with同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- to change; to alter; to transform; to correct
- 侯 Hóu: 侯 Hou2: surname Hou侯 hóu: 侯 hou2: marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; nobleman; high official侯 hòu: 侯 hou4: used in 閩侯|闽侯[Min3 hou4] (the name of a place in Fujian)
- see 會昌縣|会昌县[Hui4 chang1 Xian4]
- Ministry of Justice (in imperial China)
- 尚书 shàng shū: 尚书 shang4 shu1: high official; government minister尚书 Shàng shū: 尚书 Shang4 shu1: same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of History
- to retire from a government post (old)
- soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
- (bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- 仆 pū: 仆 pu1: to fall forward; to fall prostrate仆 pú: 仆 pu2: servant
- to shoot; to launch; to allude to; radio- (chemistry)
- 宣 Xuān: 宣 Xuan1: surname Xuan宣 xuān: 宣 xuan1: to declare (publicly); to announce
- 宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
- 吊 diào: 吊 diao4: to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person吊 diào: 吊 diao4: a string of 100 cash (arch.); to lament; to condole with
- great; grand
- aspiration; ambition
- dark; darkly; darkness
- reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- in front of; facing; (in the) presence (of)
- have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect