Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- (of officials in imperial China) to live in banishment
- ill in bed; bed-ridden
- name of a river; steep bank
- see 陽城縣|阳城县[Yang2 cheng2 Xian4]
- system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic
- bureaucrat; official
- female; woman; daughter
- to comprehend; to understand
- to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: passive 被動|被动[bei4 dong4]; drive (of gears and shafts etc)
- to be in (some state, position, or condition)
- underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate
- artistry; talent; skill; (in ancient times) female entertainer
- to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms; to place on a par with; (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y)
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- intimate friend; soul mate
- fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company
- sorrowful
- touching; moving
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned; (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
- there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition
- masterpiece; fine piece of writing
- epitaph
- (bound form) order; sequence; (bound form) introductory; initial; preface
- to admire
- what one acquires; one's gains
- 丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- 通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
- 布 bù: 布 bu4: to announce; to spread布 bù: 布 bu4: cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
- collected works
- to open a book; open-book (exam)
- 尽 jǐn: 尽 jin3: to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to尽 jìn: 尽 jin4: to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- evidently; clearly; no wonder; knowable
- affection; family love; love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
- friendly feelings; friendship
- romance; love (romantic); CL:份[fen4]
- respect; aspect; field; side; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to enrich; rich; plentiful; abundant
- to describe; to depict; to portray; depiction; portrayal
- see 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4]
- Winter Solstice, 22nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd December-5th January
- night
- to think; to consider
- 家 jiā: 家 jia1: used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]家 jiā: 家 jia1: home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]