with one's mind in a haze

A person of ability is hard to come by.(Real talent is hard to come by.)

be busy all day long(with no time to spare)

Poverty stifles ambition.(Poverty and ambition make strange bedfellows.)

teach what someone just learn

Days and months passed.(with the passing of days and months)

push up the daisies(sleep in the grave)

accumulate day by day and month by month

humanitarianism

on entering a country inquire about its customs

as if casting away a pair of worn-out shoes(like throwing away an old sandal)

Man's heart is incomprehensible.(Men's hearts are hard to fathom.)

All say the same thing.

sit on pins and needies

be unfamiliar with the place and the people(be a stranger in a strange land)

be fully occupied everyday(be hard pressed for time)

have a flourishing population(have a growing family)

(of singing) sonorous,resounding and prolonged

be overcrowded with people(be overstaffed)

Everyone fells in danger.