to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom) / fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past / a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
度日如年
dù rì rú nián
a day drags past like a year (idiom) / time hangs heavy / time crawls when one is wretched
重温旧梦
chóng wēn jiù mèng
to revive old dreams (idiom) / to relive past experiences
惊弓之鸟
jīng gōng zhī niǎo
lit. a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow (idiom) / fig. sb who frightens easily, due to past experiences
思前想后
sī qián xiǎng hòu
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom) / to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
温故知新
wēn gù zhī xīn
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
不知丁董
bù zhī Dīng Dǒng
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
借古喻今
jiè gǔ yù jīn
to borrow the past as a model for the present
承上起下
chéng shàng qǐ xià
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) / part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
替古人担忧
tì gǔ rén dān yōu
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom) / to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
替古人耽忧
tì gǔ rén dān yōu
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom) / to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
略迹原情
lu:è jì yuán qíng
to overlook past faults (idiom) / to forgive and forget
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