The next sentence is: Only the fragrance remains the same. Meaning: It still exudes the fragrance as usual.
Source: Lu You (Song Dynasty) "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei"
Original text:
Beside the broken bridge outside the post office, it is lonely and ownerless. It is already dusk and I am sad alone, and it is even more windy and rainy.
I have no intention of fighting for spring, but I will let everyone be jealous. It fell into mud and was crushed into dust, but only the fragrance remained the same.
Translation:
Beside the broken bridge outside the inn, the plum blossoms bloomed lonely and lonely, no one cared about them. Dusk falls, and the plum blossoms are helpless. They are already sad enough, but they are also destroyed by wind and rain.
Plum blossoms don’t want to spend all their efforts to compete for beauty and favor, and they don’t care about Baihua’s jealousy and rejection. Even though they have withered, been crushed into soil, and turned into dust, the plum blossoms still emit wisps of fragrance as usual.
Extended information:
Appreciation:
The seven words in the last sentence are frustrated four times: "falling off". Unable to be ravaged by the rain and wind, the plum blossoms withered one after another. Yes, this is one level. The fallen flowers lie on the ground, mixed with the mud and water, and it is difficult to distinguish which is the flower and which is the mud. This is the second level. The word "grind" shows the ruthlessness of the tormentor and the great pressure on the tormented. This is the third level.
As a result, the plum blossoms were destroyed, trampled and turned into dust. This is the fourth level. Look, how tragic the fate of plum blossoms is, it is simply unbearable to read. But the author's purpose is not just to write about the tragic experience of plum blossoms and arouse people's sympathy; in terms of writing techniques, it is still foreshadowing and building momentum, in order to push the meaning of the next sentence to the highest peak. Although the plum blossoms have withered, been trampled into soil, and crushed into dust, please see, "only the fragrance remains the same", and its "unique" fragrance will always remain the same, and it cannot change at all.