Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- itself; in itself; per se
- mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly
- to detest; hatred
- to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct
- disparaging remarks; unkind things said about sb
- flattering and fawning (idiom); sweet-talking
- to trust; to have confidence in
- faithful official
- to suppress; to inhibit; to stifle
- to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
- 谏 Jiàn: 谏 Jian4: surname Jian谏 jiàn: 谏 jian4: to remonstrate; to admonish
- to cut open the abdomen; to disembowel; to speak from the heart
- a treacherous court official; a minister who conspires against the state
- to flatter; to toady
- method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability; trick; wile
- 海 Hǎi: 海 Hai3: surname Hai海 hǎi: 海 hai3: ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous
- father's younger brother; uncle
- to feign; to pretend
- to feign; to pretend
- to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- to feign madness
- slave
- to decline; to wane; to decay; to deteriorate
- slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory)
- ruler
- to regard as; to treat as
- any; arbitrary; at will; at random
- to urge; to prompt; to spur on; to order sb about
- to take an official post; to become a government employee
- herdsman
- to remove; to take away
- to destroy
- Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4] (short name 陝|陕[Shan3] or 秦[Qin2])
- to found a country; nation-building; the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
- 土地 tǔ di: 土地 tu3 di5: local god; genius loci土地 tǔ dì: 土地 tu3 di4: land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
- official in feudal court; subject
- industrious; produce; bear
- Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2] and elder brother of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]
- to provide (an asset) as security for a loan; to put up collateral
- to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for
- to boil; to brew (tea); to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce; (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
- name of job in Imperial bureaucracy; official position