Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- the distant past; ancient times; antiquity; early historical times
- Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]
- to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle
- astounded
- window; CL:個|个[ge4],扇[shan4]
- to snow
- indoor
- to sense; to perceive; to come to realize; to be aware
- midnight
- amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe
- blanket; quilt; CL:條|条[tiao2],床[chuang2]
- pillow
- ice-cold
- sound; noise
- 亚 Yà: 亚 Ya4: Asia; Asian; Taiwan pr. [Ya3]亚 yà: 亚 ya4: second; next to; inferior; sub-; Taiwan pr. [ya3]
- to distinguish; to recognize
- since ancient times; since times immemorial
- 臧 zāng: 臧 zang1: good; right臧 Zāng: 臧 Zang1: surname Zang
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- to feign; to pretend
- brilliant; glorious
- 团 tuán: 团 tuan2: round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)团 tuán: 团 tuan2: dumpling
- 律 Lǜ: 律 Lu:4: surname Lü律 lǜ: 律 lu:4: law
- senior; older generation; precursor
- to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
- leisure
- to continue; to replenish
- portrait; to describe sth accurately
- else; other
- genuine or fake; true or false
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- along with; in the wake of; following
- to see clearly
- to doubt; to suspect
- 钻 zuān: 钻 zuan1: to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain钻 zuàn: 钻 zuan4: drill; auger; diamond
- 祝 Zhù: 祝 Zhu4: surname Zhu祝 zhù: 祝 zhu4: to pray for; to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc); person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies
- yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- to be frightened; fear; dread
- rumor; gossip; to spread rumors
- polite and modest
- at that time; originally
- to reason; to argue logically