Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- can't help (doing sth)
- path; route; method; ways and means
- 车 jū: 车 ju1: war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess)车 Chē: 车 Che1: surname Che车 chē: 车 che1: car; vehicle; CL:輛|辆[liang4]; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159
- (bound form) trace; mark; vestige; clue; Taiwan pr. [ji1]
- (old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)
- clear; bright and brilliant
- 段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
- (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent; (loanword) show; (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
- to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot
- independent; self-reliant; self-sustaining; to stand on one's own feet; to support oneself
- to beat; to lash
- saliva; to spit
- to scold; to abuse; to curse; CL:通[tong4],頓|顿[dun4]
- to be murdered
- Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
- see 南平市[Nan2 ping2 Shi4]
- all kinds of
- to threaten; to intimidate; to cow
- loud voice; in a loud voice; loudly
- to execute by hanging; to hang oneself
- 陆 lù: 陆 lu4: (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)陆 Lù: 陆 Lu4: surname Lu陆 lìu: 陆 liu4: six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- root; source; origin
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- charter
- ordinary soldier
- age; length of experience, membership etc
- to advise
- in charge of; to control
- the countryside; wilderness areas
- genre of writing; literary form; style; literary recreation and sporting activities
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- 襄 Xiāng: 襄 Xiang1: surname Xiang襄 xiāng: 襄 xiang1: (literary) to assist
- 辛 xīn: 辛 xin1: (of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa辛 Xīn: 辛 Xin1: surname Xin
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- two-character surname Taishi
- On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞[Chu3 ci2]
- to sneer
- guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
- syllable