Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 趼子
- to go and sit an examination
- modal particle
- (of sb) to express; to state; to show; (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show; expression; manifestation
- to ask (a question) in reply; to answer a question with a question; rhetorical question
- 小子 xiǎo zi: 小子 xiao3 zi5: (coll.) boy; (derog.) joker; guy; (despicable) fellow小子 xiǎo zǐ: 小子 xiao3 zi3: (literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation); (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)
- fat (e.g. pork fat); fatty meat; (fig.) a gold mine; cash cow
- sorghum
- (polished) rice
- to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance
- muscle; flesh
- full-bodied; well-rounded; fig. fertile land
- (of skin) fair and clear
- to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread
- to dress; to be dressed; clothing; apparel
- succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition); posterity
- 伯 bǎi: 伯 bai3: one hundred (old)伯 bó: 伯 bo2: father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics)
- civil and military
- official (in an organization or government); administrator
- the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
- qualifications; experience; seniority
- gambler
- 约 yāo: 约 yao1: to weigh in a balance or on a scale约 yuē: 约 yue1: to make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise
- appointment; engagement; date; CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]; to arrange to meet
- to sell off
- family property
- slender
- to bend; to curve around; curved; crooked; to wind; to warp
- eyebrow; CL:根[gen1]
- beautiful woman
- Western Jin dynasty (265-316)
- see 太康縣|太康县[Tai4 kang1 Xian4]
- mow
- 麦 Mài: 麦 Mai4: surname Mai麦 mài: 麦 mai4: wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麥克風|麦克风[mai4 ke4 feng1])
- May; fifth month (of the lunar year)
- (two, three etc) -fold; times (multiplier); double; to increase or multiply
- busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush
- wheat; CL:粒[li4]