Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- happy; entirely free from worry
- (idiom) dizzy
- Jia Yi (200-168 BC), Chinese poet and statesman of the Western Han Dynasty
- current trends; the present situation; how things are going
- 阮 ruǎn: 阮 ruan3: ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute阮 Ruǎn: 阮 Ruan3: surname Ruan; small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province
- who
- fifty
- to hit; to strike; to break; Taiwan pr. [ji2]
- thief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive; (bound form) evil; wicked; sly; shifty; devious; (literary) to harm; to injure; (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)
- to scold; shout at; to hoot at
- to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame
- common term for non-Han peoples in former times, not exclusively derogatory; barbarian
- tears; nasal mucus
- to pity
- fifty (years of age)
- unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed
- to produce a sound; to vocalize; to give voice; to articulate views or demands
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- laugh at; jeer; scoff at; sneer at
- odor; scent
- guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither); musical instrument in general
- sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
- to ridicule
- 呼 hū: 呼 hu1: to call; to cry; to shout; to breath out; to exhale呼 hū: 呼 hu1: to shout; to call out
- mad; wild; violent
- a (real) man; boy; son
- every time; on each occasion; whenever
- group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc
- breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan); to cease; to stop; to rest; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- clouds and mist
- to drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll; to split open; to spread out
- aloud; loud; loudly
- several days
- mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female