Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to exhort; to admonish
- to lose to (sb); to be outdone by
- to have no other choice; to be the last resort
- see 蘭溪市|兰溪市[Lan2 xi1 Shi4]
- perfume; fragrant
- checkpoint (for taxation, security etc); (fig.) barrier; hurdle; red tape; CL:道[dao4]; Taiwan pr. [guan1ka3]
- throughout the United States; the whole of America
- to wear (a garment)
- cane; walking stick
- leather suitcase
- to look down upon; to despise
- police dog
- to bark furiously; to howl
- 个头 gè tóu: 个头 ge4 tou2: size; height个头 ge tóu: 个头 ge5 tou2: (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in 專家個頭|专家个头[zhuan1 jia1 ge5 tou2] "expert", my ass!)
- to talk; to get into conversation with; to send word
- to blurt sth out; to open one's mouth without thinking
- (PRC) State Council; (USA) State Department
- 凤凰 fèng huáng: 凤凰 feng4 huang2: phoenix凤凰 Fèng huáng: 凤凰 Feng4 huang2: see 鳳凰縣|凤凰县[Feng4 huang2 Xian4]
- Arizona
- to pardon; to forgive; to show tolerance; to contain; to hold; inclusive
- prejudice; bias
- by comparison
- flexibility; elasticity
- air temperature
- Celsius; centigrade
- (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry; (fig.) dull; dry; boring; (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure
- Sahara Desert
- sand and dust storm
- lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom); fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
- Washington, D.C.; the US federal government
- upper layer
- to come into contact with; to have dealings
- (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful
- special duty (e.g. extra security or traffic control on special occasions); person on special duty
- known throughout the country (idiom); world-famous