Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- fortune-teller who uses the subject's face for his prognostication
- there is no lack of
- swindler; itinerant con-man
- to stop; to halt; to park (a car)
- to consult; to talk over; to discuss
- to test (machinery etc); to test (a person's skill in a particular area); a test; (computing) beta (version of software)
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- fake goods; imitation; forgery
- to hurry; to hasten; to make haste
- to stop; to bar the way
- to request; to ask; request (CL:個|个[ge4])
- 相 xiàng: 相 xiang4: appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)相 xiāng: 相 xiang1: each other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])相 Xiāng: 相 Xiang1: surname Xiang
- 卜 Bǔ: 卜 Bu3: surname Bu卜 bǔ: 卜 bu3: (bound form) to divine卜 bó: 卜 bo2: used in 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
- future (career etc) prospects
- to act willfully and make a scene; to make trouble
- (speak) without thinking the matter through
- does not count for anything; of no account
- to satirize; to ridicule; to mock
- otherwise; or else; or
- divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
- ordinary person
- footstep; step
- child
- one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch
- (of an atmosphere etc) solemn; grave; serious; (of a manner etc) earnest; severe; exacting; to strictly enforce
- (coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
- to feel embarrassed; to find it embarrassing; to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb)
- in the newspaper
- the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
- to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence)
- second-hand book; old book; ancient book
- to browse; to look over (books)
- a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time)
- slowly; unhurriedly; little by little
- to bow the head; to yield; to give in
- 底 de: 底 de5: (equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)底 dǐ: 底 di3: bottom; base; background; foundation; copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a record; (suffix) end of a year or month; (math.) radix; base (abbr. for 底數|底数[di3 shu4])
- promptly; at once
- what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about?
- to leak (information); to divulge; also pr. [xie4lou4]
- to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)