间：中间；容：容纳；息：喘息。中间都不容喘一口气。形容时机紧迫，不容延误。

No interval to rest; constantly busy

林下：幽僻之境；风气：风度。指女子态度娴雅、举止大方。

Forest undercurrent

醮：旧指女子出嫁，这里指再嫁。原指汉代卓文君嫁司马相如事。后指寡妇再嫁。

Wenjun's new wedding

拱肩：肩往上耸。耸起肩膀，弯曲着腰。形容衰老或不健康的体态。

hunch ones shoulders and bow ones back/hunching ones shoulders and bowing ones back

黧：黑。面貌黑黄色。形容憔悴的样子

Dark-skinned face

犹：尚且；怜：爱。我见了她尚且觉得可爱。形容女子容貌美丽动人。

Even I cannot help loving her upon seeing her

指面目肮脏，头发凌乱。

Dirty face and disheveled hair

汪汪：满眼泪水的样子。两眼充满泪水。

Tearful eyes

瓜字可以分割成两个八字，所以旧诗文称女子十六岁时为“破瓜之年”。

The age of breaking the melon (i.e., age of marriage for girls, usually 16)

抉：剔出；目：眼睛。指忠臣被谗诛杀。同“抉目吴门”。

Gouge eyes and hang at the door

指竭尽心力。

Haggard in spirit and exhausted in strength

形容女子的绝色。

A smile that can topple a city

瓯：盆碗之类的器皿。形容碗、盆器皿洁白干净。也比喻诗文清雅。

Snow bowls and ice cups

昼：白天。穿了锦绣衣服在白昼行走。比喻在本乡作官，或富贵后回到故乡。

Wearing embroidered clothes while traveling by day

旧态：老脾气，老样子；复：又；萌：发生。指旧的习气或毛病等又出现了。

revert to ones former state

缓：舒缓不急切。慢步行走以代乘车。

Walking slowly instead of riding a carriage

旧时用于祝人生子。

a congratulatory greeting to a friend when he begets a son

细长秀美如柳叶的宫妆画眉。借指美女。

Willow-like palace eyebrows

形容女子容貌艳丽而态度严肃。

as beautiful as peach and plum blossoms, but as cold as frost and ice

比喻女子丧亡。同“珠沉玉碎”。

Pearls sink and jade fragments shatter