提防: to guard against, to be vigilant, watch you don't (slip), Taiwan pr....
损人利己: harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom); personal gain to the detriment of others...
随大溜: drift with the stream/follow the general trend/follow others blindly...
握: a handful...
虚构: to make up, fabrication, fictional, imaginary...
推测: speculation, to conjecture, to surmise, to speculate...
子弟: child, the younger generation...
指南: to guide, guidebook...
火柴: match (for lighting fire)...
柏树: cypress tree...
