Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- Mountain of Flames of legend; fig. insurmountable obstacle; Mountain of Flames in Turpan depression in Xinjiang
- red-hot; glowing; blazing; (fig.) passionate
- raging inferno; blaze
- to stop burning; to go out (of fire); to die out; extinguished
- cool; refreshing; (of clothing) skimpy; revealing
- metaphor
- to take sth as a warning (idiom); to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly
- route; path traveled; distance traveled; course (of development)
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]; Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠[Qi1 long2 zhu1]
- Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
- we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [za2 men5]
- very far away
- to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience
- to go on an errand for nothing; to go on a wild-goose chase
- box; trunk; chest
- blank space
- to turn one's head; to turn round; to turn about
- to exchange (sth) for (sth else); to replace with; to convert into
- symbol; mark; sign
- conventional patterns; cliché
- profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism); mysterious principles
- like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom); (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative; unconstrained in style
- mouth like a torrent (idiom); eloquent; glib; voluble; have the gift of the gab
- to ridicule; to tease; to mock; idle talk; chitchat
- just the opposite
- ample; sufficient; adequate; full; fully; to the full
- yesterday; previous day; first day
- appropriate; proper; ready
- residence; dwelling
- men and horses; troops; group of people; troop; staff; centaur
- to search for; to look up
- to fax; a fax; (literary) to portray vividly in painting
- scholarship; high-level study; to do scholarly research; to pursue a high level of study
- to accomplish; to get (sth) done
- to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to sculpt; to carve (jade); ornate artwork; overly elaborate prose
- to begin a lecture; to start on a story
- lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic; to hold forth to one's heart's content
- 史 Shǐ: 史 Shi3: surname Shi史 shǐ: 史 shi3: history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China