同于深秋时节的蝉。形容噤口不言。

silent as a winter cicada

应：适应，适合。顺应天命，合乎人心。旧时常用于颂扬建立新的朝代。

Follow people and respond to heaven

涂：泥沼；炭：炭火；生灵：百姓。人民陷在泥塘和火坑里。形容人民处于极端困苦的境地。

Smearing and burning living beings

指行踪不定。

Traces drifting and wandering

泛：漂浮；宅：住所。形容以船为家，在水上生活，漂泊不定。

floating family and drifting abode boat dwellers dwell on a boat live a wandering life on the water, living in the boat

哺：口中所含的食物；鼓腹：鼓起肚子，即饱食。口含食物，手拍肚子。形容太平时代无忧无虑的生活。

feed food and fill the stomach to the fulla scene of light heartedness of the people in times of peace with food in the mouth and belly well-filled

比喻太平无事。

The sea is calmspeace in the country/peace in the country

门庭衰微，福祚浅薄。

The gate declines, fortune is thin

同“析骸以爨”。指被围日久，粮尽柴绝的困境。亦以形容战乱或灾荒时期百姓的悲惨生活。

Split bones for cooking

旧时认为文人越是穷困不得志，诗文就写得越好。

Adversity reverals genius

大势已去，力量用尽。指惨败后的困难处境。

be in a deplorable plight and powerless

穿丝履，着缟衣。形容奢侈。

Treading silk and trailing white cloth

生涯：生活。指妓女以出卖笑脸为业

living by prostitution

离开适当的地位或赖以生存的环境

like a fish out of water

破旧的衣服和粗粝的饭食。指生活清苦。

Poorly clothed and eating from a bamboo basket

破旧的衣服和粗粝的饭食。指生活俭朴。同“弊衣箪食”。

Worn clothes and simple food

膏粱：肥肉和细粮，指美味佳肴；锦绣：精致华丽的丝织品。形容富贵人家的奢华生活。

Fat grains and brocade

欺侮贫穷，喜爱富有。

Taking advantage of the poor and loving the rich

丁：“个”的讹字。不认识一个字，指没有文化的人。亦作“目不识丁”、“不识一丁”。

Have not recognized anyone

形容生活宽裕，衣食丰足。

fleshpots