Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- honest; frank; candid
- to cease; to suspend; to break off; to stop; to discontinue
- 证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: to admonish证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm
- deities; gods
- to agree on sth (after discussion); to conclude a bargain; to arrange; to promise; to stipulate; to make an appointment; stipulated (time, amount, quality etc); an arrangement; a deal; appointment; undertaking; commitment; understanding; engagement; stipulation
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- beginning; first day of lunar month; north
- repeatedly; time and again
- to grow; to cultivate; to train; to educate; to patronize
- (of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring; (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds
- left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- betrayal; defection; turncoat; to change sides politically
- avaricious
- (bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
- full; plump
- to estimate; to surmise; to appraise
- to estimate; to assess
- speculation; to conjecture; to surmise; to speculate
- hastily
- good name; good reputation
- sincere; genuine; true
- succinct; pure and concise
- 坎 kǎn: 坎 kan3: pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵坎 kǎn: 坎 kan3: pit; hole
- 汉 Hàn: 汉 Han4: Han ethnic group; Chinese (language); the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)汉 hàn: 汉 han4: man
- Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica); Japanese pagoda tree
- rope
- to droop; to sag; to hang down; sagging; drooping; prolapse (medicine)
- to fit; to suit
- not valid; ineffective; in vain
- incense tripod
- 倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology); rhyme; appeal; charm; (literary) pleasant sound
- 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
- (bound form) frugal; thrifty
- to overflow; transverse flow; to flow over; cross flow
- to think sth through; to consider carefully
- 班 Bān: 班 Ban1: surname Ban班 bān: 班 ban1: team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
- slender
- character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)