Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- incident; unforeseen event; events (in general)
- 服 fù: 服 fu4: classifier for medicine: dose; Taiwan pr. [fu2]服 fú: 服 fu2: clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes
- to abscond; to slink off
- to wander about destitute; to be stranded
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom)
- to infer; to deduce; to predict; to extrapolate
- 东方 Dōng fāng: 东方 Dong1 fang1: the East; the Orient; two-character surname Dongfang东方 dōng fāng: 东方 dong1 fang1: east
- shore; seaside
- city; town; CL:座[zuo4]
- prostitute; hooker
- rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting); to exaggerate; to embellish
- that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]
- depressed; dejected; feeling low
- literature
- to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc); a masterpiece
- vague; indistinct; fuzzy; to blur; to obscure; to confuse; to mix up
- 三重 Sān chóng: 三重 San1 chong2: Sanchong, a district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan; Mie (prefecture in Japan)三重 sān chóng: 三重 san1 chong2: treble
- et cetera; and so on ...; wait a minute!; hold on!
- by no means an isolated case; numerous
- type; form; pattern; style
- to pass; to go through; process; course; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to process; processing; working (of machinery)
- to relate (a story or information); to tell or talk about; to recount; narration; telling; narrative; account
- center of gravity; central core; main part
- gist; main idea; general tenor; one's judgment
- to make (wine or spirits); (fig.) to lead to (a bad result)
- senior concubine; imperial consort
- to point out
- to be full of; to be rich in
- rich; strong; heavy (fragrance); dense; full-bodied; intense
- profane; secular; worldly
- to have; to possess
- romantic
- winding; (fig.) complicated
- (of a person) sad beyond words (idiom); (of music, literature etc) poignant; very sentimental
- (of poetry etc) plaintive and beautiful; poignant
- to design; to plot; to plan out; to compose; to draw a mental sketch; conception; plan; idea; composition
- elaborate
- atmosphere; mood
- language; CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3]
- smooth and ornate; flowing (style etc)
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]