shen1
wai4
zhi1
wu4
  1. mere worldly possessions

Characters

  • 身 (身): body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
  • 外 (外): outside; in addition; foreign; external
  • 之 (之): (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
  • 物 (物): (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself

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当我们濒临死亡,我们应该独处。我们将摒离所有身外之物。世间的朋友们-跟我们的地位,财富和社会层次息息相关的朋友,都将离我们而去,只因我们即将步入黑暗的山谷。那些与陌生人紧紧相连的关系网-我们的亲属、我们的爱人、孩子、兄弟姐妹,还有那些不太亲却有共同朋友的人们,我们也必须要分开。现在,他们并没用离开我们。有一个比兄弟更亲的人-爱他自己也爱世间直到尽头。

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