1.谓微贱的附着物。 元 无名氏 《神奴儿》第一折：“媳婦兒是牆上泥皮。”2.以喻妾。 元 郑廷玉 《楚昭公》第四折：“可正是堂上的糟糠，休猜作牆上泥皮。” 元 无名氏 《刘弘嫁婢》第二折：“你可休覷的微賤看的容易，莫把這堂中珍寳，你可休看承做牆上泥皮。”

1. Refers to a lowly attachment. Yuan, Anonymous, 'Divine Slave', Act 1: 'The daughter-in-law is like the mud on the wall.' 2. Used as a metaphor for a concubine. Yuan, Zheng Tingyu, 'Duke Zhao of Chu', Act 4: 'She is exactly the coarse wife in the hall, don't think of her as mud on the wall.' Yuan, Anonymous, 'Liu Hong Marries a Maid', Act 2: 'Don't look down on what is humble and easy to see, don't treat the treasures in this hall as if they were mud on the wall.'

姑且如此而已。同“聊复尔耳”。

Casual talk and passing remarks,

形容无依无靠，非常孤单。同“形影相吊”。

Form and Shadow Facing Each Other

指在父母的庇荫下生活。同“爷饭娘羹”。

Father's soup, mother's rice

A word is weightier than a hundred pieces of gold

穿孝服，服丧事。犹言披麻戴孝。

Pulling cloth and wearing hemp

比喻贤才。

Fine horse bones from a thousand miles

惩罚一人以警戒众人。同“惩一警百”。

Punish one as a warning to a hundred

圭撮：容量词，六栗为一圭，十圭为一撮。形容数量准确。

Do not lose a jade tablet

垂：流传。范：典范。指光辉榜样或伟大精神永远流传。

Set an example for a hundred generations

寡：少；欲：欲望。指仆人的欲望很小。

Little selfishness and few desires

与山外距离远、人迹罕至的山岭、山谷。

desolate remote mountainous area

闲愁：说不出的烦恼。莫名的烦恼极多。形容思想空虚，多愁善感。也形容愁情满怀。

Countless idle sorrows

比喻非常胆大。

bears heart and leopards gall fearlessness courage guts

把方木头放到圆孔里去。比喻二者不能投合。

Round holes and square wood

有什么值得奇怪的呢？表示不值得奇怪。

be nothing wonderful

形容高矮、长短不齐。也指不幸的事。

of various lengths

犹言避世隐居。《晋书·贺循传》：“或有遐棲高蹈，輕舉絶俗，逍遥養和，恬神自足，斯蓋道隆人逸，勢使其然。”

Lightly act to stand out from the vulgar

后因称一场幻梦为“一梦华胥”。

A Dream of Huaxu

殚：竭尽；虑：思虑。形容用尽心思。

rack ones brains