Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- cotton wadding; fig. padding; long-winded
- to defend against the cold; to keep warm
- beautiful
- to present; to bequeath
- to teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule
- pure; innocent
- offspring; posterity
- to marry; to get married
- (bound form) ordinary; numerous; (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with 嫡[di2])
- raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
- to grow old together
- to take a wife; to get married (man)
- newly married
- 妻子 qī zǐ: 妻子 qi1 zi3: wife and children妻子 qī zi: 妻子 qi1 zi5: wife
- idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; CL:個|个[ge4]; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc
- to explain oneself
- inclination; interest
- guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to love each other
- all one's life; throughout one's life
- even if; even though
- poverty-stricken; poor
- (idiom) (of a married couple) to live together until old age; to remain lifelong companions
- to be content with; to be accustomed to
- poor but upright; destitute
- to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve
- to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
- shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows; for better or for worse
- a list; to list; to enumerate
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- lit. to lift the tray to eyebrow level (idiom); mutual respect in a marriage
- cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests; obliged to collaborate towards common goals
- example; exemplar; typical case
- and; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition
- to indicate; to point out
- to have enough food and warm clothes; adequately provided
- equivalent to 就可以; can then (do sth); can immediately (do sth); (do sth) and that will suffice
- to pursue greedily; to crave
- luxurious; extravagant
- luxurious
- to express; to convey
- to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)
- in former times; the olden days