Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 时代 shí dài: 时代 shi2 dai4: age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]时代 Shí dài: 时代 Shi2 dai4: Time, US weekly news magazine
- to rise; to spring up; to burgeon; to be aroused; to come into vogue
- hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
- to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise; entrepreneurship
- reputation; prestige; public esteem
- almost; nearly; practically
- to spread widely
- worldwide; entire world
- 东方 dōng fāng: 东方 dong1 fang1: east东方 Dōng fāng: 东方 Dong1 fang1: the East; the Orient; two-character surname Dongfang
- Jew
- merchant; businessman
- the present age; the contemporary era
- spring tide; (fig.) momentous social change
- to create; to bring about; to produce; to set (a record)
- economy; economic
- miracle; wonder; marvel
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- astute; shrewd; smart
- business; trade; commerce
- brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss
- impression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory
- profound; deep; deep-going
- seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1 zuo4]); classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
- city; town; CL:座[zuo4]
- local conditions and customs (idiom)
- known; what one knows
- excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely; (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
- to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)
- 土地 tǔ dì: 土地 tu3 di4: land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]土地 tǔ di: 土地 tu3 di5: local god; genius loci
- what?; something; anything
- to stand out; outstanding
- frequently; often
- to exceed; to overstep; to go too far; to encroach
- same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- the mundane world; the world of mortals
- preconceived idea; bias; prejudice
- unique; distinctive
- field of view; (fig.) outlook; perspective
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- to speculate; to surmise; to wonder whether; to guess
- to measure; measurement
- root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- (lit. and fig.) deep
- 土 Tǔ: 土 Tu3: surname Tu; Tu ethnic group土 tǔ: 土 tu3: earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress