Vocabulary: 前言
from 楚辞选
- 差x1 | Chapter Rank #361used in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]to send (on an errand); (archaic) person sent on such an errand; job; official postdifferent; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack; not up to standard; inferior; Taiwan pr. [cha1]difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
- 作家x1 | Chapter Rank #362author; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 不过x1 | Chapter Rank #363only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 他们x1 | Chapter Rank #364they; them
- 流传x2 | Chapter Rank #91to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- 下来x2 | Chapter Rank #92to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 很少x2 | Chapter Rank #93
- 生卒x1 | Chapter Rank #365
- 不详x1 | Chapter Rank #366not in detail; not quite clear
- 生平事迹x1 | Chapter Rank #367lifetime achievements
- 为x1 | Chapter Rank #368as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)because of; for; to
- 后人x1 | Chapter Rank #369later generation
- 所知x1 | Chapter Rank #370known; what one knows
- 据说x1 | Chapter Rank #371it is said that; reportedly
- 学生x1 | Chapter Rank #372student; schoolchild
- 怀王x1 | Chapter Rank #373
- 儿子x1 | Chapter Rank #374son
- 顷襄王x1 | Chapter Rank #375
- 时x1 | Chapter Rank #376surname Shio'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
- 过x1 | Chapter Rank #377to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-(experienced action marker)surname Guo
- 大夫x1 | Chapter Rank #378senior official (in imperial China)doctor; physician
- 十六篇x1 | Chapter Rank #379
- 多x1 | Chapter Rank #380many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 亡佚x1 | Chapter Rank #381nonextant; lost to the ages
- 只有x1 | Chapter Rank #382only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才[cai2]) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈[zhi3 you3 tong1 guo4 zhi4 liao2 cai2 neng2 quan2 yu4] "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要[zhi3 you3 nan2 xing4 cai2 you3 ci3 xu1 yao4] "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服[zhi3 you3 qu1 fu2] "the only thing you can do is give in")
- 九x2 | Chapter Rank #94nine; 9
- 辩x2 | Chapter Rank #95to dispute; to debate; to argue; to discuss
- 可信x1 | Chapter Rank #383trustworthy
- 本书x1 | Chapter Rank #384
- 所x1 | Chapter Rank #385actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 选x1 | Chapter Rank #386to choose; to pick; to select; to elect
- 全文x1 | Chapter Rank #387entire text; full text
- 一部分x1 | Chapter Rank #388portion; part of; subset
- 作者x1 | Chapter Rank #389author; writer
- 未定x1 | Chapter Rank #390undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
- 招魂x1 | Chapter Rank #391to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill; (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc)
- 若干x1 | Chapter Rank #392a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?
- 段落x1 | Chapter Rank #393phase; time interval; paragraph; (written) passage
- 这样x1 | Chapter Rank #394this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- 屈x1 | Chapter Rank #395bent; to feel wrongedsurname Qu
- 大都x1 | Chapter Rank #396for the most part; on the whole; metropolitanDadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijingfor the most part; on the whole; also pr. [da4 du1]
- 这里x1 | Chapter Rank #397here
- 读者x3 | Chapter Rank #36reader
- 从中x1 | Chapter Rank #398from within; therefrom
- 了解x1 | Chapter Rank #399to understand; to realize; to find out
- 这种x1 | Chapter Rank #400this kind of
- 基本x1 | Chapter Rank #401basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- 面貌x1 | Chapter Rank #402face; features; appearance; look
- 同时x1 | Chapter Rank #403at the same time; simultaneously
- 每篇x1 | Chapter Rank #404