Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to follow good examples
- technology; technique; skill; CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]
- to feed to the full; to cram
- belly
- to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- (of systems, facilities etc) comprehensive; well-developed; excellent; to refine; to improve
- personality; integrity; dignity
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- worthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
- technical ability; skill
- supplementary; incidentally; in parentheses; by chance; in passing; additionally; secondary; subsidiary; to attach
- imperial ancestral temple; imperial court; temple
- to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning
- 民 mín: 民 min2: (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country民 Mín: 民 Min2: surname Min
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 范 fàn: 范 fan4: pattern; model; example范 Fàn: 范 Fan4: surname Fan
- to guide; to lead (around); to conduct; to boot; introduction; primer
- to set up; to establish
- will; resolution; aspiration
- ambition; goal; ideal; aspiration
- childhood; infancy
- 何为 hé wéi: 何为 he2 wei2: what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use何为 hé wèi: 何为 he2 wei4: (old) why
- father's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- to give instructions; to give advice
- to reveal; to enlighten; enlightenment; revelation; illumination; moral (of a story etc); lesson
- bedside
- sudden; abrupt; unexpected
- to stop
- needlework; sewing
- ten million; countless; many; one must by all means
- as it turns out; by lucky coincidence; (of number, time, size etc) just right
- History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿[Chen2 Shou4] in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝[Jin4 chao2], 65 scrolls
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- sovereign king
- to be overwhelmed by emotions
- 呢 ne: 呢 ne5: (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech呢 ní: 呢 ni2: dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)
- to be surprised; to be amazed; to be stunned
- very much; extremely; one ten thousandth part
- loud voice; in a loud voice; loudly
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 呀 yā: 呀 ya1: ah (used to express surprise); (onom.) creaking呀 ya: 呀 ya5: (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
- to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- 牛 níu: 牛 niu2: ox; cow; bull; CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2]; newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]); (slang) awesome牛 Níu: 牛 Niu2: surname Niu
- nine; 9
- all one's life; lifetime
- lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard