壮志饥餐胡虏肉,笑谈渴饮匈奴血。待从头、收拾旧山河,朝天阙。

With lofty aspirations, we long to feast on the flesh of the Hu invaders when hungry, and drink the blood of the Xiongnu enemies with laughter when thirsty. Awaiting the day when we can reclaim the lost lands, and present ourselves at the imperial court.

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Sentence Composition

1 壮志 zhuàngzhì
  1. great goal
  2. magnificent aspiration
=2 (bound form) hungry
=2 variant of
3 cān
  1. meal
  2. to eat
  3. classifier for meals
4 胡虏
  1. (historical) “Northern Barbarians” (non-Chinese ethnic groups living to China's north)
  2. “Northern Barbarians” (non-Chinese ethnic groups living to China's north)
5 ròu
  1. meat
  2. flesh
  3. pulp (of a fruit)
  4. (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
  5. (of a person) flabby
  6. irresolute
  7. Kangxi radical 130
6 笑谈 xiàotán
  1. object of ridicule
  2. laughingstock
  3. to laugh over sth
  4. to make light chat
=7 thirsty
=7 jié
  1. (obsolete) alternative form of (jié, “to use up; to exhaust; to cause to dry up”)
  2. alternative form of (jié, “to use up; to exhaust; to cause to dry up”)
=8 yǐn old variant of yǐn
=8 yǐn to drink
=8 yìn to give (animals) water to drink
=8 lán
  1. (historical dictionaries only) to finish drinking
  2. (historical dictionaries only) to pour a round of alcoholic drink
  3. to finish drinking
  4. to pour a round of alcoholic drink
9 匈奴 Xiōng Xiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties
=10 xiě see xuè
=10 xuè
  1. blood
  2. colloquial pr. xiě

classifiers: ,

=11 dāi to stay; to remain
=11 dài
  1. to wait
  2. to treat
  3. to deal with
  4. to need
  5. going to (do sth)
  6. about to
  7. intending to
12 从头 cóngtóu
  1. anew
  2. from the start
13 收拾 shōushi
  1. to put in order
  2. to tidy up
  3. to pack
  4. to repair
  5. (coll.) to sort sb out
  6. to fix sb
14 jiù
  1. old
  2. opposite: new
  3. former
  4. worn (with age)
15 山河 shān
  1. mountains and rivers
  2. the whole country
=16 朝天 Cháotiān Chaotian district of Guangyuan city 广元市 Guǎngyuánshì, Sichuan
=16 朝天 cháotiān
  1. to have an audience with the Emperor
  2. to be presented at court
  3. to look skyward
  4. to look up
=17 Què surname Que
=17 quē
  1. used in place of (old)
  2. mistake
=17 què
  1. Imperial city watchtower (old)
  2. fault
  3. deficiency