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aspiration / ambition / the will

sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote

member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

with single-hearted devotion (idiom)

to become demoralized / to lose one's sense of purpose

don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say

the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950

traffic sign

poor but with great ambitions (idiom) / poor but principled

poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition

gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals

(Tw) (coll.) matter / thing / (Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [tāi-tsì], equivalent to Mandarin 事情[shi4 qing5])

to demonstrate one's sincerity by dying

Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (c. 275) by Shen Ying 沈瑩|沈莹

(Tw) (coll.) matter; thing (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [tāi-tsì], equivalent to Mandarin 事情[shi4 qing5])

History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿[Chen2 Shou4] in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝[Jin4 chao2], 65 scrolls

don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say