Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- casting a couple's fortune based on their bithdates (old)
- propitious vapours
- the twenty-eight constellations
- early morning
- to grow light (at daybreak)
- to unblock; to dredge; to clear the way; to get things flowing; to facilitate; to mediate; to lobby; to explicate (a text)
- 读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- 签 qiān: 签 qian1: to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document; visa签 qiān: 签 qian1: inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag
- owl
- to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- imperial robe
- Zhuanxu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4], trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC
- for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized
- to kill
- 据 jū: 据 ju1: used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]据 jù: 据 ju4: according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- 尚书 shàng shū: 尚书 shang4 shu1: high official; government minister尚书 Shàng shū: 尚书 Shang4 shu1: same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of History
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- hungry; to starve (sb)
- to lose one's life
- Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4] (short name 魯|鲁[Lu3])
- to unstring a bow; to slacken; to relax; to loosen
- to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- stratagem; strategy; resourcefulness
- deep springs
- 田 tián: 田 tian2: field; farm; CL:片[pian4]田 Tián: 田 Tian2: surname Tian
- 土 Tǔ: 土 Tu3: surname Tu; Tu ethnic group土 tǔ: 土 tu3: earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- to fill up; to cram; to stuff
- tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
- (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky); (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
- river; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to drain (factory waste etc); to excrete (urine, sweat etc)
- 天柱 tiān zhù: 天柱 tian1 zhu4: pillars supporting heaven天柱 Tiān zhù: 天柱 Tian1 zhu4: see 天柱縣|天柱县[Tian1 zhu4 Xian4]
- to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
- to frame (an innocent person); to collapse
- to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw
- to lay in place; to put; to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial
- to handle; to manage; to put in order; to arrange; to administer; to execute; to take action on; to plan
- dirty; filthy; foul; corrupt; to smear; to defile; dirt; filth
- to be deeply in (trouble, debt etc); deep set (eyes)
- suitable; adequate; ready; settled
- round; circular
- (of an area) vast or extensive; large-scale; widespread; (of people) numerous
- sacred mountain
- buttocks; bottom; butt; back part