Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
- (literary) to ascend; to climb; to mount
- rich and powerful
- nothing other than; to differ in no way from; the same as; to amount to
- lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible
- to prepare to build sth
- (literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect
- Classic of Rites
- widower
- few; scant; widowed
- 废 fèi: 废 fei4: to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste废 fèi: 废 fei4: disabled
- art; fine arts; painting; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- national music; Chinese traditional music
- traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
- rules; regulations; constitution; statute; articles of association (of company); articles of incorporation; charter (of a corporation); by-laws
- apartment building; block of flats (may be a public housing block or a condominium etc) (CL:套[tao4])
- living room; sitting room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- dining room; dining hall; mess hall
- dining hall; dining room; restaurant; CL:間|间[jian1],家[jia1]
- classroom
- classroom; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to hold; to contain; to accommodate; to tolerate (different opinions)
- to suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension
- all rivers run into the sea; use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
- to exert oneself (bound form)
- sunken eyes; deep and hollow; remote and obscure
- dark; deep; stupid; the underworld
- to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom); (of language) simple and easy to understand
- compendium
- successive generations; successive dynasties; past dynasties
- spacious; wide
- front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom); a place with many visitors
- cloth shoes; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- dressed in Western-style clothes; impeccably attired
- to speak frankly with assurance