Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out
- to settle for second best; the next best thing
- research institute; graduate studies; graduate school; CL:個|个[ge4]
- graduate student; postgraduate student; research student
- dwelling
- harmony; pleased
- paper; treatise; thesis; CL:篇[pian1]; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
- academic circles; academia
- to inscribe a poem (often, composed on the spot) on a painting, fan or ceramic bowl etc as a work of calligraphy; an inscribed poem
- melancholy; depression
- ancient road; precepts of the antiquity
- 殷 yīn: 殷 yin1: flourishing; abundant; earnest; hospitable殷 yǐn: 殷 yin3: roll of thunder殷 Yīn: 殷 Yin1: surname Yin; dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟[Yin1 xu1] in present-day Henan殷 yān: 殷 yan1: dark red
- the way back; return route
- privately-run; private (school, hospital etc); to set up illegally
- public (e.g. school, hospital)
- to appoint; (job) appointment; CL:紙|纸[zhi3]
- to receive a great deal of (respect, criticism, attention etc)
- to give special approval
- form; table; CL:張|张[zhang1],份[fen4]
- to sign (one's name with a pen etc); to autograph; signature
- to affix a seal; to stamp (a document); to sign off on sth
- so that; so as to; in order to
- fail to appreciate sb's kindness; not know how to appreciate favors
- unwritten (rule)
- to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship
- application form
- to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)
- (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript
- reserved; overcautious
- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- to become rigid
- a full mouth of (sth tangible); to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc); (to agree etc) unreservedly
- doctrine; dogma; creed; dogmatic
- cavity; empty; vacuous
- bored; fed up with sth; sick of sth
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- to be disgusted with; to dislike; bad reaction; antipathy
- meeting; conference; CL:場|场[chang3],屆|届[jie4]