Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- family member; (old) servant
- past; bygone; the past
- in the future; future; the future; CL:個|个[ge4]
- high and wide
- fine and dense
- trivial matters; petty things
- to dilute
- personal integrity
- strict and impartial; firm
- wild goose
- 度 dù: 度 du4: to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences度 dúo: 度 duo2: to estimate; Taiwan pr. [duo4]
- to take a photo as a souvenir; a souvenir photo
- to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- food preserved in sugar or honey
- sweet; (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
- seafood
- 咸 Xián: 咸 Xian2: surname Xian咸 xián: 咸 xian2: all; everyone; each; widespread; harmonious咸 xián: 咸 xian2: salted; salty; stingy; miserly
- female; woman; daughter
- to comb one's hair
- scenery; landscape; view
- bearing; manner; presence
- destitute; troubled; penniless and full of care
- sparse; few and far between
- to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
- then; at once; always; (archaic) luggage rack on a chariot
- to fall into disuse (of laws, customs etc); to neglect
- 落空 lào kōng: 落空 lao4 kong1: to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless落空 lùo kōng: 落空 luo4 kong1: to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing落空 là kòng: 落空 la4 kong4: to omit; to neglect (to do sth); to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by
- in the dark; in secret; on the sly; surreptitiously
- logical thinking
- to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success)
- (in) the same place; together; in company (with); altogether; in total; an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)
- juncture; moment
- to receive (as a guest)
- to repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
- distressed
- prosperous; henry (unit of inductance)
- used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4] and 莫可奈何|莫可奈何[mo4 ke3 nai4 he2] (literary); used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
- to welcome; to greet
- unintentionally; not in the mood to
- to act with diligent care