Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- 雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
- (bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
- (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one); CL:把[ba3]
- 冲 chōng: 冲 chong1: (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with冲 chòng: 冲 chong4: powerful; vigorous; pungent; towards; in view of冲 chōng: 冲 chong1: thoroughfare; to go straight ahead; to rush; to clash
- clear; limpid
- rays of light; brilliant rays; radiance
- to stand side by side; to be juxtaposed
- a treacherous court official; a minister who conspires against the state
- weaponry; weapons; arms
- to stain; to sully; to tarnish
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- 掖 yè: 掖 ye4: to support by the arm; to help; to promote; at the side; also pr. [yi4]掖 yē: 掖 ye1: to tuck (into a pocket); to hide; to conceal
- 参 shēn: 参 shen1: ginseng; one of the 28 constellations参 cēn: 参 cen1: used in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]参 cān: 参 can1: to take part in; to participate; to join; to attend; to counsel; unequal; varied; irregular; uneven; not uniform; abbr. for 參議院|参议院 Senate, Upper House
- life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from
- windblown dust; hardships of travel; vicissitudes of life; prostitution
- Chen Zi'ang (c. 661-702), Tang dynasty poet
- (bound form) to tie up; to tighten up; (bound form) to include; to comprise; to put (text) in brackets; Taiwan pr. [gua1]
- heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- not yet; not so far
- 斯 Sī: 斯 Si1: Slovakia; Slovak; abbr. for 斯洛伐克[Si1 luo4 fa2 ke4]斯 sī: 斯 si1: (phonetic); this
- position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
- 余 Yú: 余 Yu2: surname Yu余 yú: 余 yu2: (literary) I; me余 yú: 余 yu2: extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me
- 蹇 jiǎn: 蹇 jian3: lame; cripple; unfortunate; slow; difficult; nag (inferior horse); donkey; lame horse蹇 Jiǎn: 蹇 Jian3: surname Jian
- ashamed
- device; tool; utensil; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- 谏 jiàn: 谏 jian4: to remonstrate; to admonish谏 Jiàn: 谏 Jian4: surname Jian
- taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from
- bandit; (literary) not
- (literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself; personally
- ordained or appointed to a post; to benefit from counsel
- (bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month (e.g. 上旬[shang4 xun2]); (bound form) ten years (in age expressions, e.g. 六旬[liu4 xun2] "sixty years old")
- grade; class number (in school); flight or run number; flight or run (seen as an item); shift (work period)
- paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2]); classifier for documents, letters etc
- 忽 Hū: 忽 Hu1: surname Hu忽 hū: 忽 hu1: to neglect; to overlook; to ignore; suddenly
- full; filled; surplus
- box; trunk; chest
- way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- to accomplish; to achieve
- should; ought to
- modest; self-deprecating
- to receive in no small measure
- special favor from a ruler; Emperor's generosity towards a favorite
- to make more beautiful; to decorate; embellishment
- to display utter loyalty; to be loyal to the end