time went by
Time flies like water. As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Li ú Ni á ns ì Shu ǐ, which describes that time is gone forever. From peony pavilion.
Idiom explanation
Fleeting time: time.
The origin of Idioms
Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty, the tenth: "you are like a beautiful family, like time flowing."
Idiom usage
As the subject and object, it describes the speed of time passing. Liu Shaotang's second plum blossom (6): "Luo Wen found that although the years passed and the wind and rain raged, the beauty of the plum rain was still engraved and preserved in his heart, without fading or incomplete."
time went by
wind that carries sand and drives stones - fēi shā yáng lì
be able to penetrate deeply into all things - shuǐ jīng dēng lóng