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

living from hand to mouth

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

to put young men to shame

lingchi; death by a thousand cuts; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body

Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora)

(means of) enduring; tiding over; pulling through

seaworthiness

excelling; surpassing; outdoing

makeshift; for the time being

shelter