腐朽 | fǔ xiǔ | rotten; decayed; decadent; degenerate | |
不朽 | bù xiǔ | immortal; immortality | |
永垂不朽 | yǒng chuí bù xiǔ | eternal glory; will never be forgotten | |
朽木 | xiǔ mù | rotten wood | |
摧枯拉朽 | cuī kū lā xiǔ | to destroy sth. already deteriorating (idiom) |
1 | 我不知道这种气味是从哪里来的,从我的祖母和上了年纪的姨妈和姑妈那里闻到过这种气味,像散发在老年人居住的房间和走廊里朽味,令人窒息。 I don`t know what makes up this smell, which I recognize from grandmothers and elderly aunts, and which hangs in the rooms and halls of old-age homes like a curse. | |
2 | Go to the bookcase and get down that dictionary. | |
3 | I see only the perishable. | |
4 | She bodied forth the immortal mind. | |
5 | We must hold dear and carry forward the ever-lasting Bandung spirit. |