spend months and years
Poverty is a Chinese idiom, pronounced Qi ó ngni á NL ě ISH ì, which describes a long time. From Xunzi, honor and disgrace.
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It's a long time.
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"Xunzi · honor and Disgrace": "however, it is human's feeling that we have been living in poverty for many years, and we don't know what we are short of."
spend months and years
the year in which a great master deceased - suì zài lóng shé
no one dare do anything about sb - mò gǎn shuí hé
cultivate virtue throug practicing thrift - jiǎn yǐ yǎng dé