Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- coast; seaside; seashore; beach
- desert; CL:個|个[ge4]
- occasionally; once in a while; sometimes
- high altitude
- illusion; mirage
- complete; intact
- Changhong (brand)
- November; eleventh month (of the lunar year)
- disaster and happiness
- to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time); to retire early (from one's job)
- a person of foresight; (religion) a prophet
- past events; former times
- (Chinese mythology) qilin; (old) giraffe
- 脯 pú: 脯 pu2: chest; breast脯 fǔ: 脯 fu3: dried meat; preserved fruit
- minced meat; pickled meat
- to perish; to be killed
- grieved; sorrowful
- reeking of blood; bloody (events)
- to massacre; to slaughter
- to retire from office; to resign
- to be drawn into; to be involved in
- whirlpool; eddy; vortex; (fig.) maelstrom
- among; in the middle; in the center
- see 太和縣|太和县[Tai4 he2 Xian4]; see 太和區|太和区[Tai4 he2 Qu1]
- conspiracy; secret plan; to conspire
- to root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish
- to kill; to murder
- court councilor
- to involve others (in a crime); guilt by association
- Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安[Pan1 An1], prominent Western Jin poet, also famous for his good looks, such that his name became a byword for "extremely handsome man"
- an execution; to put sb to death
- see 安仁縣|安仁县[An1 ren2 Xian4]
- 耶 ye: 耶 ye5: final particle indicating enthusiasm etc耶 yē: 耶 ye1: (phonetic ye)耶 yé: 耶 ye2: interrogative particle (classical)
- Sima Zhao (211-265), military general and statesman of Cao Wei 曹魏[Cao2 Wei4]
- to find an excuse
- facing execution
- A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆[Liu2 Yi4 qing4]
- magnanimity; tolerance; high capacity for drinking
- Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
- see 上蔡縣|上蔡县[Shang4 cai4 Xian4]