Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- Yuan River
- 莫 Mò: 莫 Mo4: surname Mo莫 mò: 莫 mo4: do not; there is none who
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- billows; great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
- vast; extending into the distance
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- to play the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1], a vertical bamboo flute; (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1]); (slang) to give a blowjob
- train of thought; emotional state; mood; feeling
- lasting for ages; long drawn out; remote in time or space; unhurried; a great number (of events); preposterous; pensive
- dragon boat (used at 端午[Duan1 wu3], the Dragon Boat Festival)
- 行 xíng: 行 xing2: (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon行 háng: 行 hang2: (bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines行 héng: 行 heng2: used in 道行[dao4 heng2]
- 转 zhuàn: 转 zhuan4: to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actions转 zhuǎi: 转 zhuai3: see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]转 zhuǎn: 转 zhuan3: to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail); (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy
- 帘 lián: 帘 lian2: flag used as a shop sign帘 lián: 帘 lian2: hanging screen or curtain
- oar; paddle; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- distant; remote
- edge of the water; waterside; shore (of sea, lake or river)
- to cross (a body of water)
- to show; to illustrate; to display; to demonstrate
- sincerity; absolute good faith
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- to arrive; arrival; advent
- maid
- affectionate; passionate; emotional; sentimental
- slowly; gradually
- secretly; inwardly
- 地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- bright; smart; quick-witted; heart; thoughts; spirit
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- 木兰 Mù lán: 木兰 Mu4 lan2: see 木蘭縣|木兰县[Mu4 lan2 Xian4]; see 花木蘭|花木兰[Hua1 Mu4 lan2]木兰 mù lán: 木兰 mu4 lan2: lily magnolia (Magnolia liliflora)
- helm; rudder
- broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of
- to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- waterway; ship channel
- spray; ocean spray; spindrift; fig. happenings from one's life; CL:朵[duo3]
- 似 shì: 似 shi4: used in 似的[shi4 de5]似 sì: 似 si4: to seem; to appear; to resemble; similar; -like; pseudo-; (more) than
- 雪 xuě: 雪 xue3: snow; CL:場|场[chang2]; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)雪 Xuě: 雪 Xue3: surname Xue
- to splash
- land-based; on land