Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- 蓼 lù: 蓼 lu4: luxuriant growth蓼 liǎo: 蓼 liao3: polygonum; smartweed
- to strive; to make an effort; to exert oneself
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- identical; the same
- (one's) inner world
- figure; physique; form and structure
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- number of people
- holding two jobs simultaneously
- traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment
- to apportion expenses, responsibilities etc; to demand contributions
- forced labor; corvée (labor required of a serf); animal labor
- boss; gang leader
- to placate; to pacify; to appease
- 辽 Liáo: 辽 Liao2: short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liao2 ning2] province; Liao or Khitan dynasty (916-1125)辽 liáo: 辽 liao2: (bound form) distant; faraway
- insect; bug; worm; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]
- cherry-apple
- year of famine
- to return to the capital
- elders
- great kindness; magnificent hospitality
- economy; economic
- (political) achievements; track record
- amicable; amiable
- to be careful; to pay attention to
- civil case; agricultural affairs; civil
- to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving
- to put out; to issue
- man of sixty or seventy
- it is said that; reportedly
- Zhou Dynasty; Western Zhou 西周 (1046-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou 東周|东周 (770-221 BC)
- to alarm; to agitate
- tearfully
- cheeks streaming with tears (idiom)