Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- playwright
- Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
- to compress; compression
- Chinese opera
- to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to feign; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
- red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
- red; scarlet; bare; naked
- 血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]
- who would have thought; unexpectedly
- opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- reed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
- to pick up; to collect; to gather up
- bee; wasp
- father and son
- material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- homicide; to murder; to kill (a person)
- yin and yang
- to survey; to measure; to conjecture
- unexpected; measureless; unexpected circumstance; contingency; mishap
- to be angry at; to be displeased and annoyed
- (idiom) to speak with conviction
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- author's preface; autobiographical notes as introduction to a book
- surface; face; outside; appearance
- smile; CL:個|个[ge4],絲|丝[si1]; to smile
- utterly sincere; wholly devoted
- behind; at the back; in the rear; behind sb's back
- to entrap; to set up; to frame (up); to make false charges against
- to exist at the same time; to coexist
- lit. honeyed words, a sword in the belly (idiom); fig. hypocritical and murderous
- 郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]
- sleeve; to tuck inside one's sleeve
- to incite disharmony; to instigate
- (classical) barely; just; just now
- next of kin; closely related
- relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to quarrel; to fall out with sb
- to repeat; to duplicate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to reinforce; to strengthen; to enhance
- to emphasize (a statement); to stress