Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- (of passing time) in an instant; (of a sight) in a flash
- feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- to splash
- seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [si4 de5]
- (idiom) cautious; careful; prudent
- to sprinkle; to spray; to spill; to shed
- things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom)
- to rock; to shake; to sway
- 端 duān: 端 duan1: (bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; to eliminate; to wipe out端 duān: 端 duan1: start; origin
- unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed
- 晃 huǎng: 晃 huang3: to dazzle; to flash past晃 huàng: 晃 huang4: to sway; to shake; to wander about
- 面子 miàn zi: 面子 mian4 zi5: outer surface; the outside of sth; social prestige; face面子 miàn zi: 面子 mian4 zi5: (medicinal) powder
- to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain
- lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful; to fail through lack of a final effort; to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
- to throw down; to fall; to drop and break
- on the ground; on the floor
- a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5]
- to return; to go back
- to report back after completion of one's mission
- 空 kòng: 空 kong4: to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time空 kōng: 空 kong1: empty; air; sky; in vain
- to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out
- to report on completion of a mission; debriefing
- hanging one's head dispiritedly (idiom); dejected; crestfallen
- 令 líng: 令 ling2: used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])令 lìng: 令 ling4: to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem令 lǐng: 令 ling3: classifier for a ream of paper
- amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- clean; neat
- to urge; to exhort
- need not; does not have to; not necessarily
- strategy; tactics; crafty; adroit
- low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
- to care about; to take seriously; to take to heart
- fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though
- head high, chest out (idiom); to keep up one's spirits; in fine mettle (of animal)
- trifle; trivial matter; CL:點|点[dian3]
- nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- on the contrary; instead
- 易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
- to lose