Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- then (as in "the then chairman")
- to watch; to view
- to harvest; to reap; to gather in crops
- scene; scenario; situation; setting
- peasant; farmer
- busy; bustling
- exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
- mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen; Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
- time; season; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to brush; to caress (of breeze); to praise
- laborious
- on the road; on the way; en route
- a man; a male
- 冒 Mào: 冒 Mao4: surname Mao冒 mào: 冒 mao4: to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover
- torrid heat
- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
- long-distance
- to accept; to take; next; following
- feature article; close-up (filmmaking, photography etc)
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- she
- to hug; to cherish; within the bosom (of the family); to embrace (also fig. an ideal, aspiration etc)
- child
- portable
- on the ground; on the floor
- ear of wheat
- to pay taxes
- foodstuff; cereals; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts
- if; in case; in the event that
- to see; to catch sight of
- exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- now; at present; currently
- is precisely
- to prompt; to induce; to spur
- to reflect upon oneself; to examine one's conscience; to question oneself; to search one's soul
- guilty conscience; to feel a twinge of guilt
- to feel deeply