in deep sorrow
Tearful, pronounced t ì L è Iji ā ol í ng, with a runny nose and tears running down at the same time, describes extreme grief. It comes from the stele of sun Gen in Anping by Wu Mingshi of Han Dynasty.
Idiom explanation
Snivel and tears flow down at the same time, describing extreme grief.
allusion
[source] Han Wumingshi's Anping xiangsungen tablet: "compatriots are pathetic, weeping, quacking, wailing." [example] light is recitation, with tears and the same rhyme. Biography of Wei Shu Cui Liang
Discrimination of words
English Translation: tearsandsnivel fall own at the sametime. Common degree: general emotional color: commendatory words. Grammatical usage: predicate, attributive, adverbial; idiom structure: subject predicate type. Generation time: ancient times
in deep sorrow
to be said of greatness of maternal love - cùn cǎo chūn huī
to believe everything in books is worse than to have no books at all - jìn xìn shū bù rú wú shū