Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- a carved inscription
- to give up; to part with
- to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal)
- laws and decrees
- (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly; (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat; (bound form) to put in order; to straighten; (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb; (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to
- 严 yán: 严 yan2: tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; father严 Yán: 严 Yan2: surname Yan
- close; similar to
- abdomen; stomach; belly
- (bound form) to ally oneself with; to unite; to combine; to join; (bound form) (poetry) antithetical couplet
- Li Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet
- bored; boring; senseless
- compassionate; gentle; merciful; kind; humane
- colors of spring; spring scenery
- (dialect) today; (literary) the present; this age
- 裴 Péi: 裴 Pei2: surname Pei裴 péi: 裴 pei2: (of a garment) long and flowing
- 门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men
- to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve
- 渐 jiān: 渐 jian1: to imbue渐 jiàn: 渐 jian4: gradual; gradually
- dusk; evening; nightfall
- to cherish; to begrudge; to pity; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5]
- to arrive; to come
- to pace back and forth; to dither; to hesitate; (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
- to loiter (i.e. reluctant to leave); to linger on
- to leave; to exit
- (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- apparently; it seems that
- today; the present time; now
- 要 yāo: 要 yao1: (bound form) to demand; to coerce要 yào: 要 yao4: to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important
- to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
- gradual change; (graphic design) gradient
- course of events; process
- 不是 bù shi: 不是 bu4 shi5: fault; blame不是 bù shì: 不是 bu4 shi4: no; is not; not
- (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- until
- time; juncture; moment; period of time; CL:個|个[ge4],段[duan4]; constantly; always
- (of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- surname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai; name of states in southern China at different historical periods
- 藏 Zàng: 藏 Zang4: Tibetan ethnic group; Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1])藏 cáng: 藏 cang2: to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect藏 zàng: 藏 zang4: storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture
- 海 Hǎi: 海 Hai3: surname Hai海 hǎi: 海 hai3: ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous