Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- to execute (a plan); to grasp
- 强 qiáng: 强 qiang2: strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]强 qiǎng: 强 qiang3: to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort强 Qiáng: 强 Qiang2: surname Qiang强 jiàng: 强 jiang4: stubborn; unyielding
- 鲠 gěng: 鲠 geng3: to choke on a piece of food鲠 gěng: 鲠 geng3: to choke on a piece of food; (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat
- (bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
- not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- order (from above)
- then; at once; always; (archaic) luggage rack on a chariot
- to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- to speak; to say
- Your Majesty; His or Her Majesty
- mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly
- classical final particle, similar to modern 了[le5]
- to change color; to discolor; to change countenance; to become angry
- 罢 ba: 罢 ba5: (final particle, same as 吧)罢 bà: 罢 ba4: to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend; to quit; to finish
- 谓 Wèi: 谓 Wei4: surname Wei谓 wèi: 谓 wei4: to speak; to say; to name; to designate; meaning; sense
- 绛 Jiàng: 绛 Jiang4: capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)绛 jiàng: 绛 jiang4: purple-red
- to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- I; me; my
- select the best people for promotion
- to be; thus; so; therefore; then; only; thereupon
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- thus; so; like that; you; thou
- not; thereupon
- (bound form) may; can; (bound form) to endure; to bear; (in 堪輿|堪舆[kan1 yu2]) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆[yu2])
- this; these
- certainly; must; will; necessarily
- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- 启 qǐ: 启 qi3: to open; to start; to initiate; to enlighten or awaken; to state; to inform启 Qǐ: 启 Qi3: Qi son of Yu the Great 禹[Yu3], reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝[Xia4 Chao2] (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
- words; speech; to say; to talk
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- 路 Lù: 路 Lu4: surname Lu路 lù: 路 lu4: road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits
- 若 rùo: 若 ruo4: to seem; like; as; if若 rě: 若 re3: used in 般若[bo1 re3]; used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- to dismiss from office; to expel
- pliers; pincers; to clamp
- his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- to plan; to seek; scheme
- 非 Fēi: 非 Fei1: abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa非 fēi: 非 fei1: to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- to develop; to make full use of
- splendid virtue; majestic moral character; great kindness
- 也 yě: 也 ye3: also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]也 Yě: 也 Ye3: surname Ye
- to comprehend; to apprehend; to become aware
- 待 dāi: 待 dai1: to stay; to remain待 dài: 待 dai4: to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to
- as before; as ever