Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- woman; female
- (coll.) cloud; CL:朵[duo3]
- address
- spice bag
- to send one's greetings; to send one's best regards; to devote attention to
- matchmaker
- the other person; the other side; the other party
- lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom); fig. to keep one's distance; (of a relationship) lukewarm; vague
- awkward; difficult; uncomfortable; not agreeing; at loggerheads; gauche
- not in the least; to completely lack
- flexible; to accommodate; to stretch or get around regulations; a short-term loan
- margin; leeway
- to spend the night; overnight
- to wash one's hair; to have a shampoo
- charm; loveliness (of a woman)
- (coll.) all day long; all the time
- wanton and unrestrained (idiom); dissolute
- etiquette; ceremonial rites
- to cast or put aside; to forget for a while
- wise and virtuous woman; lady
- to look around; to survey
- one time (all the way through); once through
- to look into the distance
- erect; towering; to stand tall
- to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
- to act as go-between (between prospective marriage partners etc)
- to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xian2 fan4], criminal suspect
- sly; treacherous
- frivolous; coquettish
- one's whole heart; from the bottom of one's heart
- to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that
- (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good; anything but reassuring
- betrothal gift
- fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾[Ku4]
- to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study
- (idiom) to go far away; to flee to a distant place
- nowhere
- temporary; provisional; for the time being
- to drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic; homeless; unsettled (e.g. population); vagrant
- not yet; still not
- to settle down and get married (of a man); to become a recognized expert
- but; however
- go-between; matchmaker