Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- nobleman; person of noble character
- to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth
- why bother?; is it worth the trouble?
- once familiar places; former haunts
- gaze; insight; foresight; vision; way of looking at things
- confusion
- to distinguish; to differentiate; to resolve
- likes and dislikes
- consistent; unanimous; in agreement; together; in unison
- even more (so)
- freak; weird
- mugwort (Artemisia)
- to distinguish; to discern; to identify; to recognize
- to judge (a competition); to appraise
- dirty soil; dung and dirt; (fig.) worthless thing
- to fill up
- odor; scent
- official pay; sacrificial rice
- 百 Bǎi: 百 Bai3: surname Bai百 bǎi: 百 bai3: hundred; numerous; all kinds of
- feather screen; to screen; to shade; cataract
- (aviation) to land at an alternate airport
- 剡 shàn: 剡 shan4: river in Zhejiang剡 yǎn: 剡 yan3: sharp
- rising and falling
- fault; to blame; to punish; calamity; misfortune
- 繇 zhòu: 繇 zhou4: interpretations of the trigrams繇 yáo: 繇 yao2: folk-song; forced labor繇 yóu: 繇 you2: cause; means
- 调 tiáo: 调 tiao2: to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend; to suit well; to adjust; to regulate; to season (food); to provoke; to incite调 diào: 调 diao4: to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody
- 筑 Zhù: 筑 Zhu4: short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: five-string lute; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: to build; to construct; to ram; to hit; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
- 傅 Fù: 傅 Fu4: surname Fu傅 fù: 傅 fu4: (bound form) instructor; (literary) to instruct; to attach; to apply (makeup etc)
- Wu Ding (c. 1250–1192 BC), Shang dynasty king known from oracle bone inscriptions
- 戚 qī: 戚 qi1: grief; sorrow戚 Qī: 戚 Qi1: surname Qi戚 qī: 戚 qi1: (bound form) relatives; kin; (bound form) grief; sorrow; (old) battle-axe
- 讴歌 ōu gē: 讴歌 Ou1 ge1: Acura (Honda car model)讴歌 ōu gē: 讴歌 ou1 ge1: (literary) to celebrate in song; to eulogize
- used in 鵜鶘|鹈鹕[ti2 hu2]
- friendly advice; words spoken on sb's behalf; a good word; kind words; words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- tonight
- refined rice
- to invite; invitation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- a ruler and his ministers (old)
- story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide