Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- scene; spectacle; circumstances; situation
- very early in the morning; in the wee hours
- to ride a horse
- 白水 Bái shǔi: 白水 Bai2 shui3: see 白水縣|白水县[Bai2 shui3 Xian4]白水 bái shǔi: 白水 bai2 shui3: plain water
- to serve to highlight; to serve as a backdrop or contrasting element
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- riverside; river plain
- (bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy
- (say) a few words
- a tourist
- cold and cheerless; desolate; deserted
- band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- shout; rallying cry; cheering; to shout
- final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- to be worried
- excessive; over-; excess; going too far; extravagant; intemperate; overdue
- (literary) gray hair
- easy; simple; suitable for beginners
- sincere; sincerity
- deep; profound
- (bound form) abundant; plentiful; extensive; wide; to win; to gain; to play; to gamble; learned; well-read; (bound form) doctoral degree (abbr. for 博士[bo2 shi4]); (bound form) blog (abbr. for 博客[bo2 ke4])
- sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds
- Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense); cork-tree bark (Chinese medicine)
- Beijing opera (or styles of song in); abbr. for 西皮二黃|西皮二黄
- 可 kè: 可 ke4: used in 可汗[ke4 han2]可 kě: 可 ke3: (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
- to use in medicine
- Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
- 西 xī: 西 xi1: west西 Xī: 西 Xi1: the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanish
- the way back; one's journey home
- bright; devoted; having sth on one's mind; troubled
- trip; travel; to travel; brigade (army)
- lamp; light; lantern; CL:盞|盏[zhan3]
- to sleep; to hibernate
- September; ninth month (of the lunar year)
- vegetation; plants
- 落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
- overgrown with weeds
- 阴 yīn: 阴 yin1: overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia阴 Yīn: 阴 Yin1: surname Yin
- the light of early dawn
- 万 mò: 万 mo4: used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]万 wàn: 万 wan4: ten thousand; a great number万 Wàn: 万 Wan4: surname Wan
- 木 mù: 木 mu4: (bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden木 Mù: 木 Mu4: surname Mu
- ash gray; vast and hazy; flourishing