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    Dizaster Well-Known Member

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    Can someone please help me translate this sentence.
    “正是女儿家，才方要有凌云志，踏青云梯，立身立命，留青史功名。”
     
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    It is my daughter's family that needs to be ambitious for her to climb the social ladder, stand up for our lives, and leave a good name in history.
     
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    What is ling yunzhi? It's not a character
     
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    It means "ambition". 凌雲 = ascend the clouds, i.e. lofty and 志 = ambition, aspirations, will. So "lofty ambition".
     
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    So it's like, "Women need to be ambitious, climb the social ladder, stand up for themselves and leave a good name in history books"
     
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