作乐 (作樂)
zuò lè
Pinyin

Definition

作乐 (作樂)
 - 
zuò lè
  1. to make merry

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

作
zuō
  1. 1 worker
  2. 2 workshop
  3. 3 (slang) troublesome
  4. 4 high-maintenance (person)
作品
zuò pǐn
  1. 1 work (of art)
  2. 2 opus
  3. 3 classifier: 部 bù
  4. 4 classifier: 篇 piān
作业
zuò yè
  1. 1 school assignment
  2. 2 homework
  3. 3 work
  4. 4 task
  5. 5 operation
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
  7. 7 to operate
作为
zuò wéi
  1. 1 one's conduct
  2. 2 deed
  3. 3 activity
  4. 4 accomplishment
  5. 5 achievement
  6. 6 to act as
  7. 7 as (in the capacity of)
  8. 8 qua
  9. 9 to view as
  10. 10 to look upon (sth as)
  11. 11 to take sth to be
作用
zuò yòng
  1. 1 to act on
  2. 2 to affect
  3. 3 action
  4. 4 function
  5. 5 activity
  6. 6 impact
  7. 7 result
  8. 8 effect
  9. 9 purpose
  10. 10 intent
  11. 11 to play a role
  12. 12 corresponds to English -ity, -ism, -ization
  13. 13 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

以身作则
yǐ shēn zuò zé
  1. 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
作威作福
zuò wēi zuò fú
  1. 1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
作茧自缚
zuò jiǎn zì fù
  1. 1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
  2. 2 hoist by his own petard
作鸟兽散
zuò niǎo shòu sàn
  1. 1 lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to head off in various directions
  3. 3 to flee helter-skelter
俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard

Sample Sentences

可惜呀，到42岁才有人把他引荐给皇帝。李白以为施展自己才能的机会到了，结果却是去给皇上和贵妃写诗作乐的。把他郁闷死了，一年多就不干了。
kěxī ya ，dào sìshíèr suì cái yǒu rén bǎ tā yǐnjiàn gěi huángdì 。Lǐ Bái yǐwéi shīzhǎn zìjǐ cáinéng de jīhuì dào le ，jiéguǒ què shì qù gěi huángshàng hé guìfēi xiěshī zuòlè de 。bǎ tā yùmèn sǐ le ，yīnián duō jiù bù gàn le 。
Unfortunately, it wasn't until he was 42 years old that someone gave him an introduction to the emperor. Li Bai thought that his opportunity to make use of his talents had come, but instead he was brought to write poems for the emperor and his concubine. It made him really depressed, and after a little more than a year, he quit.
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