Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- how; what way; what
- to acquire; to get; to obtain
- 山 Shān: 山 Shan1: surname Shan山 shān: 山 shan1: mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- portrayal
- vivid; lifelike
- true identity; true colors
- to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- heavy burden; difficult task; great responsibility
- destitute but honest; poor and simple; spartan; austere
- cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
- to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again
- urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- ferocious; fierce; violent; brave; suddenly; abrupt; (slang) awesome
- 舒 shū: 舒 shu1: to stretch; to unfold; to relax; leisurely舒 Shū: 舒 Shu1: surname Shu
- anxiety; distress
- eyebrow; upper margin
- see 太倉市|太仓市[Tai4 cang1 Shi4]
- to burn; to sear; to scorch; (bound form) bright; luminous
- eye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh; mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]); item; section; list; catalogue; (taxonomy) order; name; title
- electric light; lightning; electro-optical
- precipice; overhanging cliff
- rotten wood
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- sad; sadness; sorrow; grief
- 毙 bì: 毙 bi4: to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death毙 bì: 毙 bi4: to collapse
- to spy; watch for
- common gull
- to sleep; to hibernate
- to congeal; to concentrate attention; to stare
- to dissipate; to dissolve
- everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
- to inspect; to review; to read; to peruse; to go through; to experience
- human emotions; social relationship; friendship; favor; a good turn
- to realize only then
- narrow and small