Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- turbid; muddy; impure
- throughout time; from ancient times (up to the present)
- twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
- excitedly
- to capture; to restrain; to constrain; to adhere rigidly to; inflexible
- to cherish; to begrudge; to pity; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- good; very; very much
- line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
- (literary) what is?; what is the meaning of?
- a good chance; a golden opportunity
- to laugh heartily; a belly laugh
- 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渠 jù: 渠 ju4: how can it be that?渠 Qú: 渠 Qu2: surname Qu
- steady; steadfast
- attendant; waiter
- upward; up; to advance; to try to improve oneself; to make progress
- can't touch; can't reach; (fig.) unable to get a grasp of
- to peck
- to dispatch sb to do sth; to make sb leave; to pass (the time); (old) to make arrangements; (old) to bestow (alms etc)
- diligent; industrious (in one's studies); to study hard; to make great effort
- see 無可救藥|无可救药[wu2 ke3 jiu4 yao4]
- 刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
- hatchet
- 乌 Wū: 乌 Wu1: abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1 ke4 lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1 zi1 bie2 ke4 si1 tan3] etc; surname Wu乌 wù: 乌 wu4: used in 烏拉|乌拉[wu4 la5]; used in 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4 la5 cao3]乌 wū: 乌 wu1: crow; black
- rise and fall
- to act out of personal considerations; to show partiality
- ruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool; hip
- addicted to; fond of; stem corresponding to -phil or -phile
- relative superiority (better or worse, stronger or weaker, above or below etc)
- wall
- energy left over (to do sth else)
- sharp-sighted and deft
- danger; dangerous; rugged
- to obstruct
- (to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds; dutiful; keeping to one's role
- divergent path; (fig.) wrong path
- where; how
- 边 biān: 边 bian1: side; edge; margin; border; boundary; CL:個|个[ge4]; simultaneously边 bian: 边 bian5: suffix of a noun of locality