Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- bitter cold
- December; twelfth month (of the lunar year)
- 柏 bò: 柏 bo4: used in 黃柏|黄柏[huang2 bo4]; Taiwan pr. [bo2]柏 bó: 柏 bo2: (used for transcribing names)柏 Bǎi: 柏 Bai3: surname Bai; Taiwan pr. [Bo2]柏 bǎi: 柏 bai3: cedar; cypress; Taiwan pr. [bo2]
- to freeze to death; to die off in winter
- gate of a village; village
- north wind
- celery wormwood (Artemisia carvifolia); to give off; to weed
- thorns
- Great Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
- brown; gray or dark color; coarse hemp cloth; Taiwan pr. [he2]
- to avoid (an unpleasant fate)
- 勤 qín: 勤 qin2: diligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty; attendance勤 qín: 勤 qin2: industrious; solicitous
- to ask oneself; to search one's soul; to reach a conclusion after weighing a matter
- discussion; forum
- and so on; so and so; many and confused
- bamboo; CL:棵[ke1],根[gen1]
- bitter cold; severe winter
- violent; acute; severe; fierce
- to warm oneself (by a fire, heater etc)
- the whole night
- to see for oneself; to see with one's own eyes
- to blame oneself
- hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- to suffer from (a disadvantage)
- extremely
- village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]
- thistles and thorns; brambles; thorny undergrowth
- moist; wet
- work; manual labor
- tired; exhausted; worn out; to toil
- 业 Yè: 业 Ye4: surname Ye业 yè: 业 ye4: line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already
- human relationship; order; coherence
- mutual
- to arrange; to spread out; to narrate in detail; to describe at great length; to elaborate
- cultured; sophisticated
- to teach; to instruct; to induce
- 暴 bào: 暴 bao4: sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure暴 Bào: 暴 Bao4: surname Bao
- female singer (archaic)
- violent woman; shrew
- kindhearted; place name
- to enlighten; to civilize; to indoctrinate; to train (an animal)
- 舒 shū: 舒 shu1: to stretch; to unfold; to relax; leisurely舒 Shū: 舒 Shu1: surname Shu