- a good chance; a golden opportunity
- useful
- next time
- years; time; age
- to waste; to squander
- the gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
- at that time; originally
- loss; damage; CL:個|个[ge4]; to lose; to suffer damage
- very; greatly
- to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
- to major (in a field); to study a specialty to obtain a higher degree
- ancient book; old book
- it is said that; reportedly
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- to peep; to pry into
- creed; article of faith
- 观 guān: 观 guan1: to look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; to advise; concept; point of view; outlook观 guàn: 观 guan4: Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform观 Guàn: 观 Guan4: surname Guan
- righteousness; virtuous cause; a woman's marriage; main points of a piece of writing
- -ism; only
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- objective; aim; goal
- 蔓 màn: 蔓 man4: creeper; to spread蔓 mán: 蔓 man2: used in 蔓菁[man2 jing5]
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- to overflow; (literary) excessive
- should not; to owe nothing
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- to forget
- Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher; José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
- 越 Yuè: 越 Yue4: generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南越 yuè: 越 yue4: to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more
- feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- ignorant; ignorance
- (idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant
- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- intention; motive; state of mind; ambition; aspiration; heart 氣|气[qi4] (TCM)
- discerning eye
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- to recall; memories; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
- historian
- Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
- not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre; nothing out of the ordinary
- 识 shí: 识 shi2: to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shi4]识 zhì: 识 zhi4: to record; to write a footnote
- defect; flaw