Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- willow catkin
- to swirl in the air (of thickly falling snowflakes, flower petals etc); to flutter about
- weak; delicate
- to extract; to excerpt
- natural charm; grace
- Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1] and Hangzhou 杭州[Hang2 zhou1]
- southern part
- spirit; mood; (linguistics) modal
- to reflect; to shine
- to peel off; to strip off
- bracelet
- to roll up; to curl up; (of dust etc) to swirl up
- (idiom) innocent and unaffected
- lit. ready to appear at the call (idiom); fig. on the verge of coming out into the open; (of a person's choice etc) on the point of being disclosed; (of an artistic depiction) vividly portrayed
- mien; bearing; grace; amorous feelings; flirtatious expressions; local conditions and customs; wind force, direction etc
- it goes to show that; one can see
- Northern Dynasties (386-581)
- to refer to oneself as
- (man a post and) defend
- soft
- to sway; to swing; to move back and forth; to oscillate
- old site; site of sth (palace, ancient state etc) that no longer exists
- to be versed in; to know well
- Chinese pearleaf crabapple (Malus asiatica); gift for a wedding or other happy occasion; bonus (extra pay, typically given at year-end)
- next; secondly
- Jiangsu and Zhejiang (abbr. for 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1] + 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1])
- Emperor Muzong of Tang (795-825), reign name of thirteenth Tang emperor 李恆|李恒[Li3 Heng2] reigned 821-825
- early or late; first and last; priority; in succession; one after another
- to recollect; to recall (past times); to look back
- view; scenery; scene
- fantasy
- closely linked with one another; interlocked; to interrelate
- nothing more beautiful can be imagined (idiom)