| 浮想联翩 |
fú xiǎng lián piān |
to let one's imagination roam |
| 浮 |
fú |
to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus |
| 浮想 |
fú xiǎng |
passing thought / an idea that comes into one's head / recollection |
| 想 |
xiǎng |
to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) |
| 联 |
lián |
(bound form) to ally oneself with; to unite; to combine; to join / (bound form) (poetry) antithetical couplet |
| 联翩 |
lián piān |
(literary) to come in quick succession / wave after wave |
| 翩 |
piān |
to fly fast |