Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- urgent; pressing; imperative
- lit. execute sb first, then report to the emperor (idiom); fig. to act first and report later; to take action without prior approval
- to take a course
- to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)
- to faint
- negative; passive; inactive
- history; antecedents; origin
- human relationship; order; coherence
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center; see 西昌市[Xi1 chang1 Shi4]
- 巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
- torch
- Zhanghua or Changhua city and county in west Taiwan
- to relate (a story or information); to tell or talk about; to recount; narration; telling; narrative; account
- to be a vegetarian
- duck (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (slang) male prostitute
- flesh of fish; fish and meat; (fig.) victims of oppression; (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
- to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
- indigestion
- slight illness; indisposition; ailment
- main point; essential
- 陶 Táo: 陶 Tao2: surname Tao陶 táo: 陶 tao2: pottery; pleased
- bud
- art history
- kindness; benevolence; philanthropy; virtuous intentions
- to fail to pay sufficient attention to; to be negligent in regard to; to be lacking in
- to set up; to install
- guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] during Tang and Song times)
- lit. a banquet with no empty seats; full house; capacity crowd; standing room only
- military service
- second half of the year
- cheek