Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- (bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
- 筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: five-string lute; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]筑 Zhù: 筑 Zhu4: short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: to build; to construct; to ram; to hit; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
- (so as) to avoid; to prevent; (just) in case
- natural disaster; famine
- trench
- 庄 Zhuāng: 庄 Zhuang1: surname Zhuang庄 zhuāng: 庄 zhuang1: farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
- 谩 màn: 谩 man4: to slander; to be disrespectful; to slight谩 mán: 谩 man2: to deceive
- to vie against one another; to fight each other; mutual aggression
- otter; Taiwan pr. [ta4]
- to avoid; to evade; to keep away from
- 谈 tán: 谈 tan2: to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss谈 Tán: 谈 Tan2: surname Tan
- to realize; realization
- ruler; those in power; the authorities
- (bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta)
- to work with one's brains; to rack one's brains; to worry
- apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
- to find out; to learn of
- Hui-zi also known as Hui Shi 惠施[Hui4 Shi1] (c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- wise man
- to go easy; unhurried; calm; Taiwan pr. [cong1 rong2]
- known (to science)
- in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; white
- otter
- waterbird
- apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to substitute; to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc); (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc
- to sway in the wind
- lotus
- abyss; depths; deepest or most distant part
- boat
- to bow the head; to yield; to give in
- jasper
- to fall into water; to sink; overboard; fig. to degenerate; to sink (into depravity); to go to the dogs
- to shake; to sway
- to flutter; to sway
- boyfriend; paramour (of a woman)