Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- tune; melody
- to hope; to admire
- 老子 Lǎo zǐ: 老子 Lao3 zi3: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi老子 lǎo zi: 老子 lao3 zi5: father; daddy; "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt); I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
- well-known; famous; renowned; eminent
- to push aside; to part; to brush away
- to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on
- (literary) similar; almost; (literary) if only; it is to be hoped that; (literary) maybe; perhaps
- desire; wish
- to hear (news); to listen to
- to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- voice; sound; CL:個|个[ge4]
- a beautiful woman; young beauties; youths; rosy cheeks
- to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct
- (literary) beginning of the year
- selected (for admission); elected
- fashionable
- sixty; 60
- to choose and use; to adopt (a decision)
- withered and fallen; scattered; sporadic
- relatives; members of the same family, clan, tribe etc
- 容 Róng: 容 Rong2: surname Rong容 róng: 容 rong2: to hold; to contain; to allow; to tolerate; appearance; look; countenance
- to meet; to see each other; CL:次[ci4]
- (bound form) distant; remote; far away
- to raise eyebrows; to cast sidelong glances (expressing fear or indignation); shocked; surprised
- to envy (success, talent); jealous
- to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate
- to sleep soundly
- not clear; unknown; to fail to understand
- wall; rampart
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- window; CL:扇[shan4]
- 春日 chūn rì: 春日 chun1 ri4: springtime春日 Chūn rì: 春日 Chun1 ri4: Chunri or Chunjih township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
- oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers
- to sing (of birds or insects); to warble; to chirp; to twitter
- (bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
- to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous