叟

杰弗里·乔叟

jié fú lǐ · qiáo sǒu

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]

北叟失马

běi sǒu shī mǎ

lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)

乔叟

qiáo sǒu

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]

童叟无欺

tóng sǒu wú qī

cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously

老叟

lǎo sǒu

old man

野叟曝言

yě sǒu pù yán

Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠[Xia4 Jing4 qu2]