Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
- true motive; true feelings
- long sigh; deep sigh
- one breath; in one breath; at a stretch
- (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
- to have no way out; to have no alternative
- thorny (problem); intractable
- current trends; the present situation; how things are going
- old-fashioned; out of date; to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon
- to obstruct; to hinder; to block; obstruction; hindrance
- to hold (passport, views etc)
- to repair (sth broken); to restore (sth damaged); to establish friendly relations with; (literary) to do meritorious deeds
- reform; CL:次[ci4],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]; to reform
- to follow blindly (idiom); to take as one's only guide
- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
- to implement; to carry out; to put into practice
- to wash; to rinse; to clean; (fig.) to purge; to get rid of (corrupt individuals etc)
- within the party (esp. Chinese communist party)
- selective; selectiveness; selectivity
- itinerary; route; political line (e.g. right revisionist road); CL:條|条[tiao2]
- materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality
- atheism
- to believe firmly; without any doubt
- (loanword) opium
- to foresee; to anticipate
- imprisonment
- to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly
- ghost of one who died unjustly; departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances
- to continue to exist
- to leave home; to go off; to run away
- the other shore; (Buddhism) paramita
- politically unaffiliated; independent (candidate)
- gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits
- suffering; misery; hardship
- Confucian orthodoxy
- to have the courage to do sth; to dare to; bold in
- to take an oath to do sth; to pledge; to vow