Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 煞 shà: 煞 sha4: fiend; demon; very; (Tw) SARS (loanword)煞 shā: 煞 sha1: to terminate; to cut short; to bring to a stop; to squeeze; to tighten; to damage
- (idiom) one after another; in quick succession
- to feign; to pretend
- cannot help laughing; unable to restrain a smile
- mass communication
- family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless
- the end; an ending; to wind down; to conclude
- to drown
- stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
- to offer a cigarette (to a guest)
- kindhearted; tolerant; honest and generous
- morning newspaper; (in a newspaper's name) Morning Post
- to err; to make a mistake; to do the wrong thing
- negligent; careless; inadvertent
- nightly
- property; belongings
- to lose sth due to leakage; to let sth slip through; a slip-up; an oversight
- to tell fortune by reading the subject's facial features
- to peel; to strip; to peel off; to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)
- veil
- to advertise; to solicit business
- low-end
- abreast of modern developments; to keep up with the times; progressive; timely
- corset; sockpuppet (Internet slang); vest (dialect)
- military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose"); flag signal; semaphore
- training class
- to change shape in a single shake; fig. to take on a new lease of life
- impoverished; destitute
- to have no other choice
- (idiom) an opportunity that someone (usually a villain or adversary) can exploit
- guaranteed to cure all diseases
- to give rise to; to derive; derivative; derivation
- modern man; Homo sapiens
- original meaning
- philosophic theory; philosophy