Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- to deteriorate; to decline; to slump; also written 凌夷
- roadside
- a monument; an upright stone tablet; stele; CL:塊|块[kuai4],面[mian4]
- to engrave; inscribed motto
- great-grandfather; (old) grandfather; father
- courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- to estimate; to fine (archaic)
- to infer; to gather
- to put pen to paper
- descendant; progeny; posterity; later ages; later generations
- Wangjiang, a county in Anqing City 安慶市|安庆市[An1 qing4 Shi4], Anhui
- to comfort; to console; to stroke; to caress; an old term for province or provincial governor
- alone; desolate
- (bound form) widow
- benevolent policy; humane government
- capital of a country (literary)
- to cover up (a shortcoming); to screen off; to hide; to conceal
- to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
- shaft of a cart or carriage; (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen; (fig.) government office
- to bury (the dead); to inter
- (literary) shore; coast; bank
- stone tablet (with inscription)
- to flatter
- famous; well-known
- 叉 chà: 叉 cha4: used in 劈叉[pi3 cha4]; used in 分叉[fen1 cha4]叉 chā: 叉 cha1: fork; pitchfork; prong; pick; cross; intersect; "X"叉 chá: 叉 cha2: to cross; be stuck叉 chǎ: 叉 cha3: to diverge; to open (as legs)
- wealth; money
- the dead; the deceased
- to exaggerate
- thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, you've seen them all
- authenticity; truthfulness; veracity; reality; validity
- to mention; to bring up (a subject); with regard to; as for
- lit. to erect a stele and write a biography (idiom); to monumentalize; to glorify; to sing the praises of
- illumination
- 何为 hé wéi: 何为 he2 wei2: what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use何为 hé wèi: 何为 he2 wei4: (old) why
- ribbon for a seal; sash
- cord on a seal
- 夸 kuā: 夸 kua1: used in transliteration夸 kuā: 夸 kua1: to boast; to exaggerate; to praise