Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- trick; scheme; ploy; skill
- ten; 10
- not necessarily; maybe not
- 骈 Pián: 骈 Pian2: surname Pian骈 pián: 骈 pian2: (of a pair of horses) to pull side by side; to be side by side; to be fused together; parallel (literary style)
- nine-tenths; ninety percent
- to give credit; to give sb his due; attribution
- won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
- 凉 liáng: 凉 liang2: cool; cold凉 liàng: 凉 liang4: to let sth cool down凉 Liáng: 凉 Liang2: the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)
- pleasantly warm (weather)
- 游 yóu: 游 you2: to swim游 Yóu: 游 You2: surname You游 yóu: 游 you2: to walk; to tour; to roam; to travel
- (of an area) vast or extensive; large-scale; widespread; (of people) numerous
- great; magnificent; macro (computing); macro-
- to live away from home temporarily
- 涂 tú: 涂 tu2: to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street涂 Tú: 涂 Tu2: surname Tu
- to concentrate fully on sth; single-minded
- to be careful; to pay attention to
- to temper oneself; to steel oneself; self-discipline; endurance
- to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top
- solitary
- (bound form) general; non-specific; extensive; pan-; to flood; (literary) to float about; to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
- 驾 Jià: 驾 Jia4: surname Jia驾 jià: 驾 jia4: to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辭|敬辞[jing4 ci2])
- to jump; to leap
- to smelt; to cast; seductive in appearance
- in the end; ultimately; after all
- carefree; leisurely
- lacking in vitality; depressed (market, spirits etc)
- Baisha (common place name); Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan; Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
- indeed; really; reliable; real; true
- (of a vehicle) to flip over; (fig.) to go wrong; to flop
- eager to; in a hurry to
- to melt (metal); to cancel; to annul; to sell; to expend; to spend; pin; bolt; to fasten with a pin or bolt
- muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness
- miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy
- bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- what one has seen and heard; knowledge; one's experience
- thief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive; (bound form) evil; wicked; sly; shifty; devious; (literary) to harm; to injure; (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)
- hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist
- (literary) awake; (literary) intelligent; clever
- to conceal; dark