Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to be responsible for
- to stay idle at home; to have resigned from office; to be unemployed; to have been fired; to be on a sabbatical
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2]
- History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
- to choose; to select
- table of contents
- to extract; to excerpt; an excerpt
- important minister; major figure in government
- tremendously popular for a while
- general; admiral; air chief marshal
- army; ground forces
- Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[Huai2 nan2 zi5]
- (literary) fine jade
- 缉 jī: 缉 ji1: to seize; to arrest; Taiwan pr. [qi4]缉 qī: 缉 qi1: to stitch finely
- investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- 阮 Ruǎn: 阮 Ruan3: surname Ruan; small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province阮 ruǎn: 阮 ruan3: ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
- to form a coherent composition
- 崔 cūi: 崔 cui1: (literary) (of mountains) lofty崔 Cūi: 崔 Cui1: surname Cui
- rich and powerful person
- continent; island in a river
- equally matched; about the same
- to lead a government
- able; capable; competent; efficient
- capable person
- rumor; hearsay
- element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element; (math.) element (member of a set)
- to assemble; to gather
- (bound form) quick; nimble; agile; (bound form) quick-witted; smart
- general; military leader; fierce man
- to talk freely
- (coll.) to chat; (literary) temporarily; for a while; (literary) somewhat; slightly; (literary) to depend upon
- politician
- to gain fame and success