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rotten wood
rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate
to last forever / eternal / enduring
eternal glory / will never be forgotten
decrepit and behind the times / old / useless / (humble) I / me (used by the elderly)
rotten
lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
rotten
to decay and be eaten by worms etc / to overhoard grain so that it rots
the three imperishables, three ways to distinguish oneself that aren't forgotten by history: through one's virtue 立德[], one's service 立功[] and one's writings 立言[] (from the Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传[])
lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
withered and rotten
decaying / decrepit / aged and crumbling
decaying / rotten / decrepit
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