Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- hundred thousand
- alone; independent; single; sole; only
- to agree; to consent; to be willing to
- artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort
- call in (one's subordinates); summon (an envoy of a foreign country) to an interview
- to answer; to reply; to handle; to deal with; response
- bearing; manner; mien
- elegant; graceful
- (bound form) to regret; to repent
- 籍 Jí: 籍 Ji2: surname Ji籍 jí: 籍 ji2: (bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records; (bound form) membership
- to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
- foreign country
- poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- public execution (old)
- 黄 Huáng: 黄 Huang2: surname Huang or Hwang黄 huáng: 黄 huang2: yellow; pornographic; to fall through
- thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive
- complexion; look
- no good
- property; belongings
- security (property held against a loan); mortgaged property
- used in 黃檗|黄檗[huang2 bo4]
- not easy to do sth; difficult; unchanging
- 梅 Méi: 梅 Mei2: surname Mei梅 méi: 梅 mei2: plum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
- sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
- to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage)
- liver (CL:葉|叶[ye4]); (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game); (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
- morning; dawn; daybreak
- to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound; to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
- waning moon
- 没 méi: 没 mei2: (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not没 mò: 没 mo4: drowned; to end; to die; to inundate
- 征 zhēng: 征 zheng1: journey; trip; expedition; to go on long campaign; to attack征 zhēng: 征 zheng1: to invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence
- hiss; neigh; Ss! (sound of air sucked between the teeth, indicating hesitation or thinking over)
- pedestrian; traveler on foot; passer-by; official responsible for arranging audiences with the emperor
- blood relation; kin; one's flesh and blood
- to cry; to weep
- first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
- bitter sweet
- honey
- 秋 Qīu: 秋 Qiu1: surname Qiu秋 qīu: 秋 qiu1: autumn; fall; harvest time秋 qīu: 秋 qiu1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- river bank
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart