Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- 时代 Shí dài: 时代 Shi2 dai4: Time, US weekly news magazine时代 shí dài: 时代 shi2 dai4: age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]
- countermeasure for dealing with a situation
- 高 Gāo: 高 Gao1: surname Gao高 gāo: 高 gao1: high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
- refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- to meet
- for all eternity; throughout all ages; eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
- to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
- to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- to intend to; intention; desire
- to do everything one can; to spare no effort; to strive
- render service to repay kindness
- setback; reverse; check; defeat; frustration; disappointment; to frustrate; to discourage; to set sb back; to blunt; to subdue
- to change; to alter; to transform
- since (a time); ever since
- to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging)
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- we; us; ourselves; our
- to take note of; to pay attention to
- so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- what time?; when?
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- from beginning to end; all along
- haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- deliberate; premeditated; malice
- to fail to eventuate; (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing
- to be on the lookout; to keep watch
- 当 dāng: 当 dang1: (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)当 dàng: 当 dang4: at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)当 dāng: 当 dang1: to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule)
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 几 jī: 几 ji1: small table几 jǐ: 几 ji3: how many; how much; several; a few几 jī: 几 ji1: (literary) almost
- to sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to
- barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
- malaria; miasma
- 宦 Huàn: 宦 Huan4: surname Huan宦 huàn: 宦 huan4: imperial official; court eunuch
- (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
- to fall; to drop; to decline; to deteriorate; to go downhill
- inadvertent; accidental; to have no intention of (doing sth)
- source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion); origin; where sth comes from
- 唯 wéi: 唯 wei2: only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义[zhu3 yi4] or 論|论[lun4], e.g. 唯理論|唯理论[wei2 li3 lun4], rationalism)唯 wěi: 唯 wei3: yes
- doing as one pleases (idiom); foot-loose and fancy free
- to recite; to sing (of poetry)
- History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls