停车坐爱枫林晚

停車坐愛楓林晚

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quotation

Meanings

1 I stop the carriage because I love the maple woods at dusk
2 I halt my cart, so taken by the evening maples
3 Du Mu's line of late-autumn enchantment

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

香山红叶正红，真想停车坐爱枫林晚。

Xiāngshān hóng yè zhèng hóng, zhēn xiǎng tíngchēzuò'àifēnglínwǎn.

The maple leaves at Fragrant Hills are at their reddest - one truly wants to stop the cart to love the evening maples.

HSK 7-9

"停车坐爱枫林晚，霜叶红于二月花"是秋景的千古名句。

" Tíngchēzuò'àifēnglínwǎn, shuāngyèhóngyú'èryuèhuā " shì qiūjǐng de qiāngǔ míngjù.

'I stop the carriage for love of the evening maples; frost-bitten leaves redder than February's flowers' - immortal lines of autumn scenery.

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history

出自晚唐杜牧《山行》："远上寒山石径斜，白云生处有人家。停车坐爱枫林晚，霜叶红于二月花。"写秋日山行见枫林美景。"坐"在此是"因为"的意思，非"坐下"。末句"霜叶红于二月花"为千古咏秋佳句。

usage

关键"坐"="因为"，古汉语常见用法，如"停车坐爱"="停车因为喜爱"。初学者常误解为"坐下爱看"。必考知识点。

Stroke Order

停 tíng

车 chē

坐 zuò

爱 ài

枫 fēng

林 lín

晚 wǎn