Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- to reward; reward (as encouragement)
- Duke Huan of Qi (reigned 685-643 BC), one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
- miserable; tragic
- to die
- in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
- to confuse; to be puzzled
- to assist a ruler in governing a country; prime minister
- to slander; to defame; to misrepresent; to speak maliciously
- to flatter; to cajole
- 比 Bǐ: 比 Bi3: Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]比 bǐ: 比 bi3: to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
- 干 gān: 干 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder干 Gān: 干 Gan1: surname Gan干 gān: 干 gan1: (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shield干 gàn: 干 gan4: tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- contrary; opposite; backwards; to go against; to oppose; to betray; to rebel
- (bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant; (literary) gift; favor; Taiwan pr. [si4]
- sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- different; other; hetero-; unusual; strange; surprising; to distinguish; to separate; to discriminate
- 方 fāng: 方 fang1: square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter方 Fāng: 方 Fang1: surname Fang
- to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
- minced meat; pickled meat
- winnow basket
- detailed; comprehensive
- mad; wild; violent
- muddled; silly; confused
- 憎恶 zēng wù: 憎恶 zeng1 wu4: to loathe; to detest; to abhor憎恶 zēng è: 憎恶 zeng1 e4: to hate evil
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- chancellor (of a monarchy); cabinet minister
- to love; to be fond of; to like; affection; to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen)
- person of low social status (old); I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself); nasty person; vile character
- to disobey; to defy an edict; to violate; to go against; to run counter to
- to reject; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to repel
- to murder
- 好事 hào shì: 好事 hao4 shi4: to be meddlesome好事 hǎo shì: 好事 hao3 shi4: good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
- to bestow a reward; a reward
- to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- technique; trick; skill
- to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- to admonish sb frankly; direct criticism
- minced meat sauce; (fig.) mincemeat; a person cut to pieces
- (bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
- thorough; penetrating; to pervade; to pass through
- to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of
- to ridicule
- to save; to assist; to rescue