Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- lazy
- remote; hidden away; secluded; serene; peaceful; to imprison; in superstition indicates the underworld; ancient district spanning Liaonang and Hebei provinces
- thatched house; poor person's house; humble home
- eyes and ears; sb's attention or notice; information; knowledge; spies
- look; expression
- to neglect; to skip (class or work); to waste (time); vast; loose-fitting
- to make friends; to form friendship
- idea; thought
- 天心 tiān xīn: 天心 tian1 xin1: center of the sky; will of heaven; will of the Gods; the monarch's will天心 Tiān xīn: 天心 Tian1 xin1: see 天心區|天心区[Tian1 xin1 Qu1]
- stream
- finely chopped meat or vegetables; powdered or fragmentary
- salt; CL:粒[li4]
- nothing other than; to differ in no way from; the same as; to amount to
- rubble; debris
- to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom; to be at an all-time low
- (bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable; also pr. [zuo4]
- bright moon; refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark; CL:輪|轮[lun2]
- to be called; to be known as
- 小儿 xiǎo r: 小儿 xiao3 r5: (coll.) early childhood; (coll.) baby boy小儿 xiǎo ér: 小儿 xiao3 er2: young child; (humble) my son
- you must not; Please don't...; be sure not to; on no account (do it)
- 渠 jù: 渠 ju4: how can it be that?渠 Qú: 渠 Qu2: surname Qu渠 qú: 渠 qu2: (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
- to play tricks on; to make fun of; to tease
- ball; pellet; pill
- must; have to
- hammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance); to strike with a hammer
- 方言 Fāng yán: 方言 Fang1 yan2: the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄[Yang2 Xiong2] in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters方言 fāng yán: 方言 fang1 yan2: topolect; dialect
- to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate
- bones of the dead
- the Yellow Springs; the underworld of Chinese mythology; the equivalent of Hades or Hell
- hero; fighter; brave strong guy; warrior (in armor)
- cliff; range of peaks
- to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade
- night
- to eat; to taste; to entice (using bait)
- to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter; unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗[dou3])
- in hundred and one ways; in every possible way; by every means
- to bother about; to haggle; to bicker; to argue; plan; stratagem
- idle; leisurely