Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- moral integrity; unflinching righteousness
- not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
- upright and plainspoken
- 潘 Pān: 潘 Pan1: surname Pan; Pan (Greek god)潘 pān: 潘 pan1: (archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Tw) kitchen waste; food scraps (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [phun])
- (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- original meaning; literal sense
- sufficient to...; so much so that; so that
- to pick out; to single out
- 力 Lì: 力 Li4: surname Li力 lì: 力 li4: power; force; strength; ability; strenuously
- nature; innate tendency
- to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually; respectively
- to select; to choose; to pick over; to pick out; to differentiate; to eliminate; also pr. [zhai2]
- in order to
- 综 zèng: 综 zeng4: heddle; Taiwan pr. [zong4]综 zōng: 综 zong1: (bound form) to synthesize; to combine; Taiwan pr. [zong4]
- (of mountains) high; harsh or severe
- this kind; these kinds; such
- military official; military attaché
- to implement; to carry out; to put into practice
- to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if
- to lead; to command; commander; officer
- soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- serene and hidden in depth or distance
- to bring into; to channel into; to integrate into; to incorporate
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- to fulfill (a promise); to tread; to walk
- 牛 Níu: 牛 Niu2: surname Niu牛 níu: 牛 niu2: ox; cow; bull; CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2]; newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]); (slang) awesome
- to sacrifice; to offer libation to
- mountain god
- to cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc); (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid; (literary) to launch a surprise attack
- sunlight
- (literary) soul; mortal soul (i.e. attached to the body)
- 倒转 dào zhuǎn: 倒转 dao4 zhuan3: to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head倒转 dào zhuàn: 倒转 dao4 zhuan4: (of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse; Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3]
- upward; up; to advance; to try to improve oneself; to make progress
- star; heavenly body; satellite; small amount
- History of the Jin Dynasty, fifth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Fang Xuanling 房玄齡|房玄龄[Fang2 Xuan2 ling2] in 648 during Tang Dynasty 唐朝[Tang2 chao2], 130 scrolls