Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- sound of rain
- to observe; to watch; to survey
- limitless; boundless
- landlord (old usage)
- one's declining years; one's old age
- to flee; to abscond; to owe
- (Buddhism) the world of the living
- new expression; neologism
- providence; the Will of Heaven
- (astronomy) binary star; (fig.) two prominent entities regarded as a pair (often complementary or in rivalry)
- seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1 zuo4]); classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
- to create a work of calligraphy for display in a prominent place (typically, a sign)
- to strangle; to throttle
- talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
- respect; esteem; high regard
- to hope; to expect; expectation(s)
- He Zhizhang (659-744), Tang dynasty poet
- Ministry of Works (in imperial China)
- 3-5 p.m.
- to flee; to go into exile
- Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC
- the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards; Xionites (Central Asian nomads)
- (bound form) mountain mist
- 槛 jiàn: 槛 jian4: banister; balustrade; cage for animal or prisoner; to transport caged prisoner on a cart槛 kǎn: 槛 kan3: door sill; threshold
- order; sequence; one after another
- to ask a guest to stay; to detain a guest
- note; comment
- omission; missing word
- to get to know sb; to meet sb for the first time
- (orig.) tents forming the offices of a commanding officer; administration of a military government; (medieval Japan) "bakufu", administration of the shogun
- to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super-
- scenery in the distance; long-term prospects; (photography) long shot
- third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet
- dainty; elegance; elegant