Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- unrest (social or political); turmoil; upheaval; commotion
- a nation's power
- to decline; to wane; to decay; to deteriorate
- government; CL:個|个[ge4]
- treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers
- to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- destruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroy
- fields; countryside; rural; bucolic
- left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild
- (idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
- refugee
- bandit; (literary) not
- to steal; to rob; to plunder; thief; bandit; robber
- sea area; territorial waters; maritime space
- pirate
- to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc); movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc); (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity; (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项[xiang4]); to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
- to be rampant; to run wild
- coastland; coastal areas
- ship; boat; vessel
- postal parcel; parcel
- sailor; crew member
- to injure; injury; wound
- (piece of) news; information; message; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- (literary) to appear in (newspapers, the media, a book etc)
- to report (to the authorities); to declare (to customs)
- in the newspaper(s)
- to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
- October; tenth month (of the lunar year)
- to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
- winter; winter climate
- bandit
- to loot; to plunder
- (literary) why; how
- up until now; so far
- correct; right; so; thus; like this; -ly
- 冬 dōng: 冬 dong1: winter冬 Dōng: 冬 Dong1: surname Dong冬 dōng: 冬 dong1: (onom.) beating a drum; rat-a-tat
- (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
- more than; greater than
- foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
- in all parts of (a country); various regions