Characters
- 天 (天): day; sky; heaven
- 荒 (荒): desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect
- 地 (地): -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 老 (老): prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
Resources
- Wiktionary: 天荒地老
- MDBG: 天荒地老
- Examples with 天荒地老 on Tatoeba
Examples
人生长短无法预知， 或者长得天荒地老，让人难耐 或者短暂如朝露，过了今天没明天。