凌 - endure, keep (rain)out, stave off

to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to stave off (e.g. starvation)

skyscraping; very high; above the clouds; above this mortal world

to eke out a living; to get a bare livelihood; to live from hand to mouth

Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora)

Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora)

makeshift; for the time being

shelter

living from hand to mouth

nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

to put young men to shame

(means of) enduring; tiding over; pulling through

seaworthiness