Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- border area; borderland; frontier; frontier region
- neck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck; problem that impedes progress
- to have a holiday or vacation
- Harvard University
- to allow; to permit
- to report a proposed activity to an authority (to obtain approval or register one's intentions)
- to tender one's resignation
- foreign exchange settlement
- revolving fund; working capital; petty cash; turnover
- 转头 zhuǎn tóu: 转头 zhuan3 tou2: to turn one's head; to change direction; U-turn; volte face; to repent转头 zhuàn tóu: 转头 zhuan4 tou2: nutation (plants turning to face the sun)
- safe deposit box; safe
- astonished; startled
- beaming; all smiles
- tooth; ivory; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- to become damaged
- to mend
- to sell; to reach (a price in an auction)
- purse; wallet
- to prophesy with supernatural accuracy (idiom); to have an incredible foresight
- scholarship; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- to serve as a model for others (idiom); to be a worthy teacher
- sixteen; 16
- trifle
- suit; Western-style clothes (historical usage)
- orderly; neat; even; tidy
- to throw out; to get rid of
- intense heat; extremely hot weather
- see 三伏[san1 fu2]
- air conditioning; air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode); CL:臺|台[tai2]
- cold air; air conditioning
- electric fan
- to produce cold air (to cool a room etc)
- turbid; muddy; dirty
- thin; rarefied
- steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum)
- sultry; sultriness; hot and stuffy; stifling hot
- 颈 gěng: 颈 geng3: used in 脖頸|脖颈[bo2 geng3]颈 jǐng: 颈 jing3: neck