Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- (literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
- 园 Yuán: 园 Yuan2: surname Yuan园 yuán: 园 yuan2: land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc
- thoroughfare
- to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-
- by good fortune; luckily
- not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...?
- marvel
- to look upon as; to regard as
- top quality; front ranking
- to sketch out; to delineate
- an eccentric; odd person; person of extraordinary talent
- characteristic; trait; feature
- to know oneself; to be intimate or close; intimate friend
- objective; aim; goal
- declaration; manifesto
- to feel; to sense; to perceive
- lone; lonely
- weeping bitter tears
- old friend; the deceased
- to address sb deferentially; title; honorific
- Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 前漢|前汉[Qian2 Han4], Former Han Dynasty
- initial stage; beginning period
- outstanding; distinguished; remarkable; prominent; illustrious
- statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- writer; man of letters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- doctor (as an academic degree); (old) person specialized in a skill or trade; (old) court academician
- see 長沙市|长沙市[Chang2 sha1 Shi4]; see 長沙縣|长沙县[Chang2 sha1 Xian4]
- History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
- friendship; also pr. [yi2]
- 匡 kuāng: 匡 kuang1: (literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate匡 Kuāng: 匡 Kuang1: surname Kuang
- a broad outline; the general idea; roughly
- to steal; secretly; (humble) I
- to cry bitterly