Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- they; them
- to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- to 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)
- not in detail; not quite clear
- lifetime achievements
- 为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (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)为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to
- later generation
- known; what one knows
- it is said that; reportedly
- student; schoolchild
- son
- 时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi
- 过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-
- 大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)
- many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- nonextant; lost to the ages
- only 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")
- trustworthy
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- entire text; full text
- portion; part of; subset
- author; writer
- undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
- a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?
- phase; time interval; paragraph; (written) passage
- this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- 屈 qū: 屈 qu1: bent; to feel wronged屈 Qū: 屈 Qu1: surname Qu
- 大都 dà dū: 大都 da4 du1: for the most part; on the whole; metropolitan大都 Dà dū: 大都 Da4 du1: Dadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijing大都 dà dōu: 大都 da4 dou1: for the most part; on the whole; also pr. [da4 du1]
- here
- reader
- from within; therefrom
- to understand; to realize; to find out
- this kind of
- basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- face; features; appearance; look
- at the same time; simultaneously
- 作 zùo: 作 zuo4: to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works作 zūo: 作 zuo1: (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
- concise; brief
- to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption; CL:個|个[ge4]
- explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); Buddhism
- 并 bìng: 并 bing4: and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge并 bìng: 并 bing4: to combine; to amalgamate并 Bīng: 并 Bing1: short name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]