Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: to admonish证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- 食 shí: 食 shi2: to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse食 sì: 食 si4: to feed (a person or animal)
- outside; excluding
- to defend against the cold; to keep warm
- impoverished; poverty
- 徒 Tú: 徒 Tu2: surname Tu徒 tú: 徒 tu2: (bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc); (bound form) on foot; (bound form) bare; empty; (bound form) to no avail; in vain; (bound form) merely; just; only; (bound form) prison sentence
- have to; cannot but
- robber
- (literary) (final particle similar to 嗎|吗[ma5], 呢[ne5] or 啊[a1])
- or; could it be that...?
- rich; wealthy; affluent; to be rich in; to be replete with
- appropriate
- lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
- to form; to make up; to constitute
- 明朝 Míng cháo: 明朝 Ming2 chao2: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)明朝 míng zhāo: 明朝 ming2 zhao1: tomorrow morning; the following morning
- to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither
- vagrant; unemployed person; rōnin (wandering masterless samurai)
- loose and disorganized soldiers; stragglers; fig. a loner
- the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
- to combine; to link; to integrate; binding; CL:次[ci4]
- to lead to; to trigger; to initiate; to cause; to evoke (emotions)
- to handle; to deal with; to punish; to treat sth by a special process; to process; to sell at reduced prices
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- to be born of; to come from; family background; class origin
- Koxinga (1624-1662), military leader
- of short duration; brief; momentary
- to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)
- 正统 Zhèng tǒng: 正统 Zheng4 tong3: Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen 朱祁鎮|朱祁镇[Zhu1 Qi2 zhen4] (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, temple name Yingzong 英宗[Ying1 zong1]正统 zhèng tǒng: 正统 zheng4 tong3: orthodoxy; tradition; orthodox; traditional; principles of dynastic succession; (of an heir) legitimate
- marvel
- only; sole
- 海 hǎi: 海 hai3: ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous海 Hǎi: 海 Hai3: surname Hai
- excellent; outstanding
- navy
- lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon; to take a leading role; to build a personal fiefdom
- splendid; glorious
- to offer (goods or services); to open (for business etc)
- prohibition on entering or leaving by sea
- to hate to leave a place where one has lived long; to be attached to one's native land and unwilling to leave it
- century
- United Kingdom (UK); Britain
- (name) Victoria; (place name) Victoria (capital of the Seychelles, southeastern state in Australia etc)
- queen
- to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize
- to hit; to strike; to attack; to crack down on sth; blow; (psychological) shock; percussion (music)