As the years go by

As the years go by

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Ni á nshu ā ISU ì m ù, which means aging and the end of life. It comes from the biography of Liu Xiangzhuan in the book of Han by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Idioms and allusions

Ban Gu's Han Shu Liu Xiangzhuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "I'm afraid I can't be confident at the end of my life. I'm afraid I'll be a stranger. How can I be safe?"

Discrimination of words

Idiom usage: used as predicate and attribute; used in figurative sentences