Another Short History of Linguistics (89)

春秋，means  ‘spring autumn’ . A Chinese term for luxury life is 春花秋月, means ‘spring flower autumn moon.

兄弟，we have talked about this word, as 兄is elder brother and 弟is younger brother. Put them together 兄弟=brother. Since we can separate the word of ‘brother’ in Chinese, we can put two other characters in front of them as难兄难弟. Here the character 难 means adversity or catastrophe. The this term means ‘two brothers that have experienced the same ordeal’ or ‘a well-matched pair of brothers’

熙means daylight or time for busy,攘 means push, especially push your way forward and fro among crowd people. Put them together 熙攘means everyday busy on road. If use each of these character in double as 熙熙攘攘. It means emphatic the pronunciation of same meaning. You may split them as 天下熙熙皆为利来，天下攘攘皆为利往. The characters 天下 means under sky, 皆为 means all people are, 利 means benefit, 来means come, and 往means go. Put them together天下熙熙皆为利来，天下攘攘皆为利往 means “under the sky, all people come for benefit, and under the sky all people go for benefit.”