启齿：开口。话很难说出口

have a bone in ones throat

指对于富人，得钱便予以免除差役；对于穷人，便任意征派劳役。

Sell to the rich, shortchange the poor

随波逐流，附和世俗。

Living in harmony with the world

整日整夜，日日夜夜。

All day and all night

啜：吃；菽：豆类。饿了吃豆羹，渴了喝清水。形容生活清苦。

eat beans and drink waterllive in straitened circumstances have a simple diet be a dutiful son to ones parents enve in poverty poor but filial

身上穿着软皮衣，骑着肥壮骏马。指生活富裕，放荡不羁。

with light furs and stout horse in good circumstances

无根据地预言祸福之事。

Speaking recklessly about fortune and misfortune

谓车辆鲜丽，辕马壮健。形容豪富。同“鲜车怒马”。

Fresh carriages and strong horses

海上风平浪静，没有波浪。比喻平安无事。

The sea does not overflow with waves

鬻：卖。指生活无依，被迫卖掉自己的女儿。

sell ones children

熬：煎干。指日夜忙碌或耗费灯油

Burn oil and waste fire

泛指必需的生活用品

fuel rice oil and salt and basic daily necessities

饮食风露。比喻远离世俗而生活 亦作“饮露餐风”

take in wind and eat dewa hard life of a monk or nun feed on wind and dew live a primitive and hard life

本指野草滋生，难以消除。后以之比喻势力扩大了再要消灭它就很困难。

Spreading uncontrollably is hard to plan

鬻：卖。指生活无依，被迫卖掉自己的儿女。

and sold their sons and daughters

表示人又重操旧业。

Rework the housewife of Feng

比喻良机不易重逢。

such grand gatherings do not take place every day

比喻处境相同，利害相关。

Together in life and death on the same boat

沉湎：沉迷。沉溺于酒和安逸中间。形容对于美酒和女色过于放纵，纵欲放荡。

Indulging in debauchery

顿首：以头叩地而拜；再拜：拜两次。古代的一种跪拜礼。亦指旧时信札中常用作向对方表示敬意的客套语。

Bowing head and worshipping twice