(social) class; rank; grade
achievement; meritorious deed; distinguished service; contribution
total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale
staff officer; military staff; adviser; counselor; counsellor
appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
to bow one's head; to hang one's head; to droop (e.g. ears of grain)
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
society; the world; the times
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to take pains; to take time for someone; to do work for someone; to go to trouble for someone
to complain persistently; to gripe; to grumble; to die
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
you (plural); all of you; you all
in the belly; in one's heart of hearts
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
being very busy; busyness
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
chief; main; principal; important
to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
successive generations; successive emperors
to be lacking in options; to be too few
(good) result; outcome; fruits (of one's labors); product; accomplishment
value; worth; virtue; blessing
to be lit (e.g. candle, lamp, light bulb); to be lighted; to be burning
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
thoroughly; completely; severely; harshly; (arch.) scattered; (arch.) disconnected
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
finally; in the end; after all that; eventually; on top of all that
gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; school; phylum; division; counter for cannons
about; on; regarding; per; for every
working generation; people still working
(political) power; authority; influence
for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)