老骥

老驥
lǎojì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 an old thoroughbred horse
  2. 2 (figurative) an aged person who still has great ambitions

Examples

Tā qīshí suì hái zài gǎo yánjiū, zhēn shì lǎojì fú lì.
He's still doing research at seventy — truly an old steed in its stall.
Lǎojì suī lǎo, zhì zài qiānlǐ.
Though the old steed is old, its ambition reaches a thousand miles.

Tips

history
From Cao Cao's (曹操) 《寿》: '老骥烈士不已' — 'The old steed in its stall still longs for a thousand-li ride; the hero in his twilight years still burns with ambition.' One of the most quoted lines on aging gracefully in Chinese.

Stroke Order

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