Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- a squint; sideways glance; to look askance
- fist; boxing
- 局 jú: 局 ju2: narrow局 jú: 局 ju2: office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc局 jú: 局 ju2: cramped; narrow
- musical composition
- Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC)
- one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
- synthesis
- to describe; description
- peculiar; unusual; queer
- to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- to pick; to select; to take; to capture (data); to acquire; to pick up (a signal)
- reality; practice; practical; realistic; real; actual
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- candid; frank
- an excerpt; a digest
- unfailing; never weakening; enduring; unstoppable
- pincers for use at a fire; sword
- 切 qiē: 切 qie1: to cut; to slice; to carve; (math.) tangential切 qiè: 切 qie4: definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters)
- 崔嵬 Cūi Wéi: 崔嵬 Cui1 Wei2: Cui Wei (1912-1979), actor, dramatist and movie director崔嵬 cūi wéi: 崔嵬 cui1 wei2: stony mound; rocky mountain; lofty; towering
- bright moon; refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark; CL:輪|轮[lun2]
- girdle ornaments
- beautiful jade
- 青 Qīng: 青 Qing1: short name for Qinghai 青海[Qing1 hai3]青 qīng: 青 qing1: green; blue; black; youth; young (of people)
- surname E; short name for Hubei 湖北[Hu2 bei3]
- 欸 āi: 欸 ai1: (indicating response); (sadly sighing); also pr. [ei4]欸 èi: 欸 ei4: yes (used to express agreement)欸 ǎi: 欸 ai3: (Tw) (literary) to rebuke loudly; (Tw) (literary) to sigh; used in 欸乃[ai3 nai3]欸 ēi: 欸 ei1: hey (used to draw attention)欸 éi: 欸 ei2: eh; huh (used to express surprise)欸 ěi: 欸 ei3: hmm (used to express disapproval)
- 邸 Dǐ: 邸 Di3: surname Di邸 dǐ: 邸 di3: (bound form) residence of a high-ranking official
- small boat with windows
- 榜 bàng: 榜 bang4: (literary) oar; (metonym) boat; (literary) to whip; to flog; Taiwan pr. [beng4]榜 bǎng: 榜 bang3: notice or announcement; list of names; public roll of successful examinees
- to discard; to eliminate
- to stagnate; to congeal; (fig.) to stop still; to freeze
- to twist; crooked; unjust; in vain
- islet; bank
- remote and faraway
- see 漵浦縣|溆浦县[Xu4 pu3 Xian4]
- indecisive; irresolute
- irresolute; to move back and forth
- graupel; snow pellet; soft hail
- boundless; vast
- to cease to feel a sense of loyalty (or gratitude etc) to sb or sth; to fall out of love with sb
- scalping; to make the head bald (as corporal punishment)