plunge the people into misery and suffering(people in great affliction)

push a boat in the direction of the current

look at one's image in the mirror and pity oneself(self-appreciation)

die without closing one's eyes(turn over in one's grave)

lose one's head(One's head is sliced of from one's body.)

be half fed(In food, I do not aim at eating my full. )

hot enough to make rocks and metals melt

exotic food from mountains and seas(nice dishes of every kind)

regard it as a game(trifle with)

lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom)​; fig. impenetrable (crowd, traffic)​

The years drift by.

regard the masses as one's children(treat the people as one's own children)

parently love(deep mother love)

Grand gatherings do not take place every day.(be difficult to have such a grand feast again)

friend of wine and poetry

comprehensive planning and farsighted arrangement

get a break(a turn in one's luck)

wind(do not take one seriously; words do not count)

faint(feeble)

see 失之東隅， 失之东隅，收之桑榆