The frustrated scholars in the late Tang Dynasty lashed out at the evils of th eir time with their object-describing poems in a sharp and cold language.
晚唐尚俗寒士以咏物为投枪 ,托物以讽 ,志在刺讥 ,抨击时弊 ,揭露丑恶 ,语言尖刻 ,风格冷峭。
Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
高尚和不高尚的动机不是时常能够区别开来的。
one boy is a boy; two boys half boy; three boys no boy.
一个和尚挑水吃，两个和尚抬水吃，三个和尚没水吃，
One boy be a boy , two boy half a boy , three boy no boy .
一个和尚挑水吃，两个和尚抬水吃，三个和尚没水吃。
One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。
The monk may run away, But the temple can't nm with him.
跑了和尚跑不了庙。
Go on tolling the Bell as long as one is a monk.
做一天和尚撞一天钟。
He has exquisite tastes and manners.
他有高尚的情趣和举止。
The monk wears a string of beads.
和尚戴着一串念珠。
Some Buddhist monks live in solitude as hermits.
有些和尚在僻静处隐居。
"Well I'll be-look! The hermit's left her cell!
“啊哟，坐关和尚出关了么？
A monk holding an umbrella/having neither hair(law) nor sky(Providence)
和尚打伞,无发(法)无天
Chin Ho-shang ground his teeth.
金和尚咬着牙齿回答。
The plum is said to have been planted personally by Monk Dao An of Tang.
唐梅为道安和尚手植。
A monk's head/with no hair(no way out)
和尚的脑壳,设法(发)
The third monk couldn't help laughing.
第三个和尚忍不住笑了。
An apprentice monk reciting scriptures/saying what one does not mean
小和尚念经,有口无心
The cowl (or hood) does not make the monk
穿袈裟的不一定是和尚
He became a monk in his childhood.
他幼年便出家当了和尚。