Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- Maitreya; the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
- rigorous; strict; careful; (of writing) well organized; meticulous
- dignity; prestige; face; honorable; creditable; (of sb's appearance) presentable; respectable
- refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle
- net; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
- to fish
- to write on behalf of sb; to ghostwrite
- accomplished; elegant
- (literary) commoner; unlearned person (in former times, one who had not obtained an official degree); (old) temporary conscript
- to make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's (idiom); to share everything; to be on very intimate terms
- self-respect; self-esteem; ego; pride
- independent; self-reliant; self-sustaining; to stand on one's own feet; to support oneself
- apart from this; in addition to this
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- lieutenant general; vice admiral; air marshal
- 薛 xuē: 薛 xue1: wormwood like grass (classical)薛 Xuē: 薛 Xue1: surname Xue; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)
- The University of Hong Kong
- younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- to go to the United States
- to see sb off; to bid farewell (to sb)
- seas and oceans
- the sun and moon; day and month; every day and every month; season; life and livelihood
- to have in one's person (feelings, talent etc)
- to revere; highly esteemed
- and even; to go so far as to
- stranger
- former acquaintance; old friend
- to preach; a sermon
- to write a book advancing one's theory (idiom)
- to establish; to set up; to found
- an association; a society; CL:個|个[ge4],家[jia1]
- long-cherished wish
- first of all; in the first place
- Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
- fox
- to hold on firmly; to cling (to a belief); stubbornly
- consigned to eternal damnation; with no hope of reprieve
- to turn over (when lying); (fig.) to free oneself; to emancipate oneself; to bring about a change of one's fortunes
- cohesion; cohesiveness; cohesive
- lit. like a sheet of loose sand; fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
- ingenious; creative
- self-confidence