Original sentence: oh, how can I gravely bow and scrape to men of high rank and men of high office, who never will suffer being shown an honest-hearted face.
translation: can I bow my head and serve the powerful, which makes my heart unhappy and extremely uncomfortable!
Appreciation: I spit out the depressed spirit of Chang 'an for three years. The pen flying from the sky lights up the theme of the whole poem: the yearning for the famous mountains and fairyland comes from the struggle against the powerful, and it sings the voices of many people who are not talented in feudal society. In the hierarchical feudal society, how many people bow to the powerful and how many people are buried in obscurity!
Allusions: "Bending the waist" is an allusions used to bend the body to serve people, which comes from the Biography of Tao Qian in the Book of Jin. Tao Yuanming lived in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When he was young, he lived in poverty. He was optimistic and good at poetry. He once served as a wine offering in Jiangzhou. Because of his straightforward temperament and dissatisfaction with the ugliness of officialdom, he finally resigned and returned home. From then on, "don't bend over for five buckets of rice" has become a symbol of backbone. Li Bai's tianmu Mountain Ascended in a Dream in the Tang Dynasty used this allusion: "oh, how can I gravely bow and scrape to men of high rank and men of high office, who never will suffer being shown an honest-hearted face."