1 forever

2 always

3 perpetual

1 eternal

2 everlasting

3 fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)

1 forever

2 eternal

1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang

1 rivers and lakes

2 all corners of the country

3 remote areas to which hermits retreat

4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law

5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])

6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc

7 demimonde

8 (in modern times) triads

9 secret gangster societies

10 underworld

1 you can't always do as you like

2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)

1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)

2 (fig.) all over China

1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)

2 to set the world to rights

3 to pass judgment on everything

1 river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis

1 lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom)

2 fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows