故我：旧日的我。仍旧是过去的我。指自己的境况和从前一样，没有变化。

Therefore I remain the same

荡：摇动。动荡摇摆，不安定。形容局势不稳定，不平静。

cranky

指省吃省穿，生活节俭。

Tightening clothes and restricting food

上要侍奉父母，下要养活妻儿。泛指维持一家生活。

support ones family support ones parents and feed ones wife and chilren

穷：寻求到尽头。追究事情发生的根源。

get to the root of a matter

情思倦怠，精神萎靡。

My heart is idle, my mind is idle

站脚的地方。也比喻容身的处所。

have a foothold

匡：纠正；济：救助。拯救社会时局和风气，使之归于正道。

Rectify customs and aid the times

匡：纠正。济：救助。挽救动荡的局势。使其转危为安。

Correct the times and save the world

让：歉让。互不谦让、让步。

neither is willing to give ground each is trying to outdo the other

只与清风、明月为伴。比喻不随便结交朋友。也比喻清闲无事。

be at leisure

攒：聚集。象万枝箭聚在心上。形容万分伤痛。

Ones heart ached as if pierced by ten thousand arrows as if ones heart had been pierced with a thousand arrows heart pierced by a thousand arrows

茹：吃；檗：俗称黄柏，味苦。喝冷水，吃苦味的东西。比喻处境困苦，心情抑郁。也形容生活清苦。

drink ice water and eat the stumpthe hardest life of a widow be in straitened circumstances

俗指笔、墨、纸、砚。同“文房四宝”。

The four gentlemen of the study

在危急关头勇于献出生命。

be ready to give ones life in times of national danger give a very important asignment in time of a national emergency

指放荡的生活方式。同“选色征歌”。

Choosing songs and testing dances

鱼在锅里游。比喻处境十分危险，有行将灭亡之虞。

Fish swim under the cauldron

指在国家危殆将倾覆之时扶持之使安定。

Support in danger and assist the faltering

向壁：对着墙壁；虚造：虚构。。即对着墙壁，凭空造出来的。比喻无事实根据，凭空捏造。

make up something out of ones head

比喻一言为定，决不翻诲。

A word spoken is past recalling A word spoken can never be taken back A word spoken goes faster than a swift horse