Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- ambition; resolve; backbone; drive; spirit
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- 赵 Zhào: 赵 Zhao4: surname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms赵 zhào: 赵 zhao4: to surpass (old)
- female; woman; daughter
- 妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms (319-350)
- to die of illness
- to remarry
- she
- younger sister; young woman; CL:個|个[ge4]
- father's mother; paternal grandmother
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- mercy
- 仁爱 Rén ài: 仁爱 Ren2 ai4: Ren'ai or Jenai District of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 Shi4], Taiwan; Ren'ai or Jenai Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[Nan2 tou2 Xian4], central Taiwan仁爱 rén ài: 仁爱 ren2 ai4: benevolence; charity; compassion
- straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- elderly
- 寿 shòu: 寿 shou4: long life; old age; age; life; birthday; funerary寿 Shòu: 寿 Shou4: surname Shou
- to realize only then
- emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain
- number of people in a family; population; (old) adult males; male servants
- prosperous; thriving; to prosper; to flourish
- to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc); to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc)
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- daughter
- 给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)
- to continue; to replenish
- to add a son to the family
- mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- who would have thought that; who would have expected that
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- (detectable) movement; (sign of) activity; movement and stillness
- (coll.) exactly!; indeed; that's for sure
- luster; splendor; radiance; brilliance
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- idle gossip; irrelevant nonsense; slanderous rumor
- to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- to increase; to grow in number