任凭风浪起，稳坐钓鱼台

lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite wind and storm (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation / a cool head in a crisis

lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation

surname Ren / Ren County 任縣|任县[Ren2 Xian4] in Hebei

to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)

no matter what / despite / to allow (sb to act arbitrarily)

variant of 憑|凭[ping2]

to lean against / to rely on / on the basis of / no matter (how, what etc) / proof

wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]

wind and waves / stormy sea

wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

settled / steady / stable

to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]

to fish with a hook and bait

to fish (with line and hook) / to dupe

surname Yu

fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]

lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite storms (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation / a cool head in a crisis

lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation

Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China as part of its territory

Yutai County in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong

(classical) you (in letters) / variant of 臺|台[tai2]

desk / table / counter

Taiwan (abbr.)

platform / stage / terrace / stand / support / station / broadcasting station / classifier for vehicles or machines

typhoon