老骥伏枥，志在千里

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations

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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

old thoroughbred / fig. aged person with great aspirations

thoroughbred horse / refined and virtuous

surname Fu

to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations

type of oak / stable (for horses)

aspiration / ambition / the will

sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels