依：依恋。象小鸟那样依傍着人。形容少女或小孩娇小可爱的样子。

(of a woman or child) behave in a sweet and helpless way

离开黑暗，投向光明。比喻在政治上脱离反动阵营，投向进步方面。

(often used by defectors for self-justification) to renounce a bad cause and join the camp of justice

卓：卓越，高超。有突出的成绩和效果。

fruitful efforts

八百：形容很多；孤寒：指贫寒的读书人。许许多多贫寒的读书人。

Eight hundred penniless

好象明亮，又好象昏暗。比喻对情况的了解或对问题的认识不清楚。

indistinct

类：类别。不管什么人都可以受到教育。

provide education for all people without discrimination

指昏庸浅陋的知识分子。

pedant

形容一心一意，集中精力。

concentrate ones attention, thoughts or efforts on something

枉：白白地，徒然。白费心思。

scheme, plan or cudgel ones brain in vain

象是鬼神制作出来的。形容艺术技艺高超，不是人力所能达到的。

prodigious skill

昔：往昔，过去。现在不如过去。多用于表示对世事的不满情绪。

be worse than before The present is not as good as the past

豁然：通达的样子；贯通：前后贯穿通晓。指一下了弄通了某个道理。

to see everything suddenly in a clear light

皓：白；首：头发；穷经：专心研究经书和古籍。一直到年老头白之时还在深入钻研经书和古籍。

A hoary head does research in the classicsan aged person still learns

佛的嘴巴，蛇的心肠。比喻话虽说得好听，心肠却极狠毒。

Buddhas mouth but a vipers heart

荻：芦苇。用芦苇在地上书画教育儿子读书。用以称赞母亲教子有方。

write with a reed on the ground to teach her own childteach her own child earnestly

跬步：半步。走一千里路，是半步半步积累起来的。比喻学习应该持之有恒，不要半途而废。

A small step leads to a thousand miles

持：持论，主张；有故：有根据。指所持的见解和主张有一定的根据。

a well-founded view or opinion

不著文字，口头相传。

from mouth to mouth/spread from mouth to mouth

焚：烧；坑：把人活埋；儒：指书生。焚毁典籍，坑杀书生。

burning books and burying Confucian scholars alive

世世代代都是读书人家。

family of scholars for generations Ones family was always one of scholars