Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
- disaster; catastrophe
- 当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year
- frontier; border
- first signs; development (of a situation)
- peace; peaceful
- to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to recount in one's own words; autobiography; written self-introduction
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- lasting until; up till (the present)
- body and mind; mental and physical
- to portray
- luster of gem
- to rule (a country); to govern; rule; regime
- strategy; tactics; crafty; adroit
- 大意 dà yì: 大意 da4 yi4: general idea; main idea大意 dà yi: 大意 da4 yi5: careless
- to speak out; to declare (one's view)
- to investigate; to survey; to collate
- 机 jī: 机 ji1: (bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity; (bound form) crucial point; pivot; (bound form) quick-witted; flexible; (bound form) organic机 Jī: 机 Ji1: surname Ji
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- a (married) couple; husband and wife; CL:對|对[dui4]
- to break; to destroy; to devastate; to ravage; to repress
- highway; level road
- Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡[San1 Xia2]
- hydroelectric power
- lit. likes and dislikes; preferences; taste
- (dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
- 毛 máo: 毛 mao2: hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])毛 Máo: 毛 Mao2: surname Mao
- (in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age