vainly regret in old age(lǎo dà wú chéng)
vainly regret in old age
Old age. He is old and has nothing to achieve.
The fourth chapter of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty: "my widowed mother pities him for being a single rooted and isolated species, so I indulge him a little, and then I am old and have no success." In the tenth chapter of Jing Hua Yuan written by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty, he said, "I can't show my family's fame, and I can't prosper my country and set up my career. I'm sorry that I'm too old to succeed." [usage] is used as predicate and attributive; it refers to not being used as [antonym] young and promising [tongyunci] predestined to meet for thousands of miles, not to meet face to face, to practice personally, to be well-known at home and abroad, to be quiet but restless, to do what he wants, to be evil and to be full of disaster, to change his name, to be bitten by a snake in one year, to be afraid of grass rope in three years, etc [idiom story] Xue pan, Xue Baochai's elder brother, is a real dissolute son. He doesn't go to school seriously and fights with others all the time. When he is an adult, he can't do anything. Although he inherits his father's business as an imperial businessman, he doesn't know the world. He is cheated out of his property by local businessmen. In desperation, he has to take his mother and sister to Jia's house
Chinese PinYin : lǎo dà wú chéng
vainly regret in old age
