deeply despondent
It's a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t à R á NRU à s à ng, which means to describe a look of sadness. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.
The origin of Idioms
Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun: "when you look up to the sky and hiss, you may lose your coupling."
Idiom usage
Under his control, Ouyang Ye looks like a wooden chicken. (Liang Yusheng's "shooting stars in Mu Ye" (Chapter 54)
Analysis of Idioms
TA Yan's self mourning
deeply despondent
When enemies meet, they are especially open-minded - chóu rén xiāng jiàn ,fèn wài yǎn zhēng
discard the old ways of life in favour of the new - gé gù dǐng xīn
lament one 's littleness before the vast ocean - wàng yáng ér tàn