Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- (literary) beautiful woman; (literary) lovely; graceful; (literary) the moon
- cicada's wing
- sinuous; meandering; to take a circuitous route; to toss about; vicissitudes
- (bound form) moth
- heartbroken; to break one's heart
- to guide; guidebook
- cypress tree; Taiwan pr. [bo2 shu4]
- pine and cypress; fig. chaste and undefiled; fig. tomb
- to agree implicitly; of one mind; views coincide without a word exchanged
- 舍 shě: 舍 she3: to give up; to abandon; to give alms舍 shè: 舍 she4: (bound form) residence; house; (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself, as in 舍妹[she4 mei4]); (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li 里[li3]舍 Shè: 舍 She4: surname She
- adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors
- to employ; to appoint; (bound form) to betroth; (coll.) (of a woman) to get married; to be marrried off; (literary) to visit another state as an envoy on a diplomatic mission; Taiwan pr. [ping4]
- Artemisia stellariana
- used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4] and 莫可奈何|莫可奈何[mo4 ke3 nai4 he2] (literary); used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
- to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married
- place; destination
- main hall; honorific for one's parents (old)
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- imbecile; sentimental; stupid; foolish; silly
- 人家 rén jia: 人家 ren2 jia5: other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")人家 rén jiā: 人家 ren2 jia1: household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]
- do not
- to appear; present; now; existing; current
- social custom; CL:個|个[ge4]
- man-woman connection; intimate relationship
- (literary) to wade across a body of water; (bound form) to experience; to undergo; to be involved; to concern
- optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc)
- example; case in point
- male-female; male and female
- commonly seen
- to prevent; to block
- to talk from one's personal experience; to use oneself as an example
- cautious; prudent
- to have a special fondness (for sth)
- family; household; CL:戶|户[hu4]
- beginning; to start
- to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]