Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to calculate; accounting
- nick; jag; gap; shortfall
- with a worried frown
- villager
- glory
- demanding
- to punish; to penalize; to fine
- lowercase
- (bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. [xi4]
- to declare; to aver; to state formally
- to die of old age
- to feel nostalgic; nostalgia
- to move (to a superior place); promotion
- to pay back
- to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke
- paradise
- (idiom) to fool the world and usurp a good name
- lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom); fig. great commotion; pandemonium
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush
- (literary) astonished; shocked; amazed
- to be busy rushing about; to bustle about
- to be both mentally and physically exhausted (idiom)
- to consider; to weigh (a matter); to balance (pros and cons)
- to be up to one's ears in work (idiom); to be unable to attend to other things at the same time
- malice; evil intention
- younger male cousin through a female relative
- simple and honest; unsophisticated; guileless
- village; hamlet
- to foster; to provide care (esp. for the elderly)