Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread
- imperial apartments
- ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect); to enter upon a period of (classical); Kangxi radical 206; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
- lucky; auspicious; propitious; rayl (acoustical unit)
- born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time
- 考 kǎo: 考 kao3: to beat; to hit; to inspect; to test; to take an exam考 kǎo: 考 kao3: to check; to verify; to test; to examine; to take an exam; to take an entrance exam for; deceased father
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- dark; darkly; darkness
- (bound form) bribery
- to unblock; to dredge; to clear the way; to get things flowing; to facilitate; to mediate; to lobby; to explicate (a text)
- 落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
- everywhere
- to tour; to travel
- to get to know sb; to meet sb for the first time
- to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology)
- talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- cultivated individual; scholar; literati
- one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- to be willing to; to resign oneself to
- (coll.) to take (sth) as …; to treat as …; to assume; to act as if …; Taiwan pr. [zhi3dang1]
- teacher; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be engaged in politics (esp. as a government official)
- one day; sometime in the future
- filled with; preoccupied with
- talent and learning; scholarship
- to hold a governmental office or post; to assume office of; to take charge of; to serve as
- county level
- (bound form) army; military
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝[Qing1 chao2]; late Qing
- to work as a teacher
- to enlist; to be in the army
- affairs of life; things of the world
- (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
- to discuss; to talk about
- current politics; political situation of the time
- to be cynical; to be embittered
- lit. ten thousand fathoms; fig. extremely high or deep; lofty; bottomless
- an eccentric; odd person; person of extraordinary talent
- poem; CL:本[ben3],首[shou3],段[duan4]
- to be keen on; to have a passion for