Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 围 wéi: 围 wei2: to encircle; to surround; all around; to wear by wrapping around (scarf, shawl)围 Wéi: 围 Wei2: surname Wei
- 圈 juàn: 圈 juan4: livestock enclosure; pen; fold; sty圈 quān: 圈 quan1: circle; ring; loop; (fig.) social circle; niche group; community; fandom; classifier for loops, orbits, laps; to surround; to encircle; to circle (sth); to mark with a circle圈 juān: 圈 juan1: to confine; to lock up; to pen in
- lively discussion with everybody talking at once
- to discuss spiritedly (idiom); tongues are wagging
- to see (the same thing) over and over again; to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly)
- kitchen utensils (literary)
- 散落 sàn lùo: 散落 san4 luo4: to disperse; to fall scattered; to sprinkle散落 sǎn lùo: 散落 san3 luo4: to lie scattered (over an area); Taiwan pr. [san4 luo4]
- cupboard; cabinet
- to fall apart; exhaustion
- to throw; to throw away
- housetop; roof
- to puncture; to pierce; (fig.) to destroy (the facade concealing an unpleasant reality)
- hole; opening; cut; gap; gash; my husband or wife; classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc); precedent
- to change dramatically; radical change
- not knowing which course to follow (idiom); at a loss what to do
- agape and tongue-tied (idiom); at a loss for words; gaping and speechless
- foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank
- unable to say
- dejected; disheartened; listless
- to call out to; to greet; to say hello to; to inform; to take care of; to take care that one does not
- at one's side; on hand
- the whole story
- family member; (old) servant
- settled; accomplished; ready; Taiwan pr. [ting2 dang4]
- to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
- to smash up; to vandalize
- ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]
- shop front; facade
- to recognize; to identify
- store; shop; CL:家[jia1]
- there
- to judge; to determine; judgment
- to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack
- to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse
- to flee from sth; to run away; to escape
- foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor
- to ask for help