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邁 mài (V) to set forth

悠 you (SV) distant

悠悠 youyou: (SV reduplicated binome) distant

涉 shè (V) to cross [originally applied to crossing rivers and streams]

四顧 sì gù (Adv-V) to look all around (see Grammar 7.8 below)

何 hé *(Intensifying Adv) how SV!

茫 máng (SV) indistinct

茫茫 mángmáng: (SV reduplicated binome) indistinct, a blur,
barren

搖 yáo (V) to wave, sway

草 căo (N) grass, grasses

遇 yù (V) to encounter (unexpectedly)

故 gù *(Adj) old, familiar [a frequent allograph for gǔ 古, especially in
the compounds gùxiang: 故鄉: hometown; gùrén 故人: old friend
or acquaintance, where this form is standard]

焉 yan (Interrogative adverb) where, wherein, in what respect (functions
like interrogative an 安; (Terminal prepositional particle) at the
end of a sentence yan is a fusion of the words yú zhi 於之: (Prep.
phrase) therein.

得 dé *(V) to be able [to] [roughly equivalent to néng 能 in this sense]

速 sù (Adv) fast, quickly

盛 shèng (Adj/SV) flourishing

衰 shuai (Adj/SV) decrepit; (V) to grow old and decrepit; to degenerate

盛衰 shèngshuai: youth and age

苦 kǔ (Adj/SV) bitter; (N) bitterness; (V) to feel bitter about