Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- anxious; worried; apprehensive
- to exist at the same time; to coexist
- each; every
- to come to understand; to realize; consciousness; awareness; Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda)
- current political situation
- to undergo (hardship); to endure; to withstand
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- to tear apart
- to admire wholeheartedly; to fall in love with
- to be infatuated with
- Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
- enthusiastic; ardent; warm
- to advocate; to initiate; to propose; to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought)
- Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing); also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
- after that; then
- Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- 马 Mǎ: 马 Ma3: surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]马 mǎ: 马 ma3: horse; CL:匹[pi3]; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
- to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus
- in a word; in short; in brief
- every single; as long as
- to be in (some state, position, or condition)
- at that time
- inevitably
- China and the West; Chinese-Western
- contradiction; CL:個|个[ge4]; conflicting views; contradictory
- entanglement; dispute
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 尚 Shàng: 尚 Shang4: surname Shang尚 shàng: 尚 shang4: still; yet; to value; to esteem
- unavoidably; can't help; really; rather
- excessively; too
- distant; remote
- great; grand
- need not; not obliged to; not necessarily
- it's only right and proper; it goes without saying
- (idiom) to follow the prescribed order; to keep to the working routine
- outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- native soil; one's native land; one's hometown; local (to an area)
- still; as before; yet
- to comply with; to follow (directives); to defer (to the judgment of superiors)
- to control; to dominate; to allocate
- very long; endless
- to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme)
- (physics) inertia; (fig.) force of habit; tendency to do things in the accustomed way; habitual
- (of a period of time) long
- honest and considerate