Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to read in silence
- to read out loud; (computing) to read (data); readout (of a scientific instrument)
- incantation; spell; enchantment; curse
- incantation; magic spell; curse; malediction; to revile; to put a curse on sb
- to flow right off the tongue (of lyrics or poetry); to recite with ease; catchy (of a song)
- a huge amount (of books and papers)
- one's own mouth; fig. in one's own words; to say sth personally
- for a specific purpose; specially
- changeable situation (idiom)
- to clean up
- numerous and disorderly
- to regard as unimportant; to be indifferent to (fame, wealth etc); (of an economy or a market) to slacken
- to shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt; to evade (an issue); to step back; to withdraw; to recuse (a judge etc)
- neither servile nor overbearing (idiom); neither obsequious nor supercilious
- to dispel doubts; to clear up confusion
- to judge the hour and size up the situation; to take stock
- in groups of three or four (idiom)
- to get together
- to eavesdrop; to monitor (secretly)
- (idiom) to whisper
- to replace sb (personnel, sports team player etc); substitution
- newly-appointed; newly elected; new (in a political office)
- leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
- sth that people like to chat about; topic of idle conversation
- approved for distribution; to provide (wages etc) as usual (e.g. while an employee is on maternity leave)
- difference; peculiar
- to stop classes; to close (of school)
- at first; in the beginning
- to know; to be informed of
- excuse; pretext; entreaties; arguments
- Excuse me, may I ask...?
- for use by the emperor; imperial; (derog.) in the pay of the ruler
- lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom); fig. the slightest whiff of trouble