a father-in-law or mother in-law/不痴不聋,不作～。(赵璘《因话录》一) If you suffer from neither senile dementis nor deafness,you cannot be a father-in-law or mother-in-law....[继续阅读]

    dirty; filthy/里头是～的两间头发铺。(《儿女英雄传》三十二 ) Inside were two filthy rooms of a hair shop....[继续阅读]

    (a) filthy (thing)/你这个～! 有甚么言语,在外人处说来,欺负老娘! (《水浒全传》289) You filthy thing! What rumours are you spreading—slandering me?...[继续阅读]

    a dirty rogue/俺只道那个郑大官人,却原来是杀猪的郑屠。这个～,投托着俺小种经略相公门下做个肉铺户,却原来这等欺负人! (《水浒全传》37)So Master Zheng is only Zheng the pig-sticker,the dirty rogue who runs a butcher shop under the patronage of Young Gene...[继续阅读]

    an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (/be victo rious)/故抗兵相加,哀者胜矣。(《老子》六十九)There fore when armies are mobilized and issues joined,the man who is sorry over the fact will win./南原大战后,李自成并没有灰心,他深信～。After the batt...[继续阅读]

    〔of a piece of writing〕 be deeply felt but not sentimental;〔of a person〕 be mournful but not distressed; grief without being hurtfully excessive; be tragic yet restrained/《关雎》乐而不淫, ～。 (《论语·八佾》) The Guan Ju is expressive of enjoyment without being licentio...[继续阅读]

    be melancholy and beautiful/符兆纶评之曰:“词赋名家,却非说部当行,其淋漓尽致处,亦是从词赋中发泄出来,～。” (鲁迅《中国小说史略》228) Thus Fu Zhaolun commented: “The author was a talented poet but a novice in the writing of fiction. His most moving passag...[继续阅读]

    a land (/the countryside) swarming with famished refugees;disaster victims moaning everywhere; starving people fill the land/鸿雁于飞,哀鸣嗷嗷。(《诗经·小雅·鸿雁》)The wild geese are flying about,| And melancholy is their cry./那次地震发生后,成千上万的人流离失所,～。...[继续阅读]

    be (come) very thin through sorrow; be so emaciated with grief that one’s bones stand out; pale and haggard with sorrow/王戎虽不备礼,而～。(刘义庆《世说新语·德行》) Wang Rong,even though not performing the rites,is nevertheless so emaciated with grief that his bones stand ou...[继续阅读]

    despair is the greatest sorrow; nothing gives so much cause for sorrow as hopelessness (/losing hope/the death of one’s heart); there is no greater sorrow than despair;there is no poverty like poverty of spirit; there is nothing worse than apathy; there i...[继续阅读]