Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- housekeeping
- boss; sir (person with a leading role in an organization); (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA; (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official; (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
- to compute on the abacus; (fig.) to calculate; to plan; to scheme
- (accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts; (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge
- bound feet (traditional)
- (literary) the feminine arts (e.g. needlework)
- to grumble; to chatter away incessantly
- husband and wife
- towel; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- this time
- wet nurse
- (old) butler; steward; manager; administrator; housekeeper; to manage a household
- Chinese style; à la chinoise
- to speculate; to conjecture
- China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), abbr. for 中國銀行業監督管理委員會|中国银行业监督管理委员会[Zhong1 guo2 Yin2 hang2 ye4 Jian1 du1 Guan3 li3 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]
- department
- girl
- to alternate; to take turns
- apology; regret
- to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
- path; route; method; ways and means
- steadily; a steady pace
- (fixed) star
- planet; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- to surround; to circle; to revolve around
- to distribute; to emit; to give off
- (idiom) appropriate; apt; just right
- 蹊 qī: 蹊 qi1: used in 蹊蹺|蹊跷[qi1 qiao1]; Taiwan pr. [xi1]蹊 xī: 蹊 xi1: (literary) footpath
- study group
- (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
- prologue of play; opening remarks; preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
- magnolia
- 阇 dū: 阇 du1: defensive platform over gate; barbican阇 shé: 阇 she2: (used in transliteration from Sanskrit)
- 黎 Lí: 黎 Li2: Li ethnic group of Hainan Province; surname Li; abbr. for Lebanon 黎巴嫩[Li2 ba1 nen4]黎 lí: 黎 li2: (literary) black; dark; many; multitude
- lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face; sth assaults the senses; blatant (advertising); eye-catching; (a smell) assaults the nostrils
- green jade; bluish green; blue; jade
- (loanword) sarong
- knack of doing business; business sense