1 surname Zeng

1 once

2 already

3 former

4 previously

5 ever

6 (past tense marker used before verb or clause)

1 unfilial

1 valley

2 trough (as opposed to peaks)

3 fig. low point

4 lowest ebb

5 nadir of one's fortunes

1 filial piety or obedience

2 mourning apparel

1 never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite

1 to be forever filial (idiom)

1 lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom)

2 fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life

1 there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom)

2 one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

1 (idiom) all over the place

2 in every nook and cranny

3 packed to the rafters