public morality is not what is used to be

A human life is of greater value than everything.

burning with righteous indig-nation(be in warm blood)

feeble(have no sting in it; milk and water)

give birth to talented people generation to generation

rejoice over a windfall

conform to the course of nature

Poverty stifles ambition.(Poverty takes away pith.)

a confused noise of voices

cannot help smiling

occupied with myriad affairs daily

feelings common to all ordinary people

The bird has flown.(The person being searched for has escaped or disappeared)

wake up as if from a dream

her face is like a peach blossom

densely inhabited(thickly peopled)

one's eyes brim over with warm excited tears(in the melting mood)

hold oneself slightly aloof

the sun and the moon move back and forth like a shuttle-time flies(time elapse quickly)

seem lost in thought