dipping up (night soil); scooping up
swift (any bird of family Apodidae); fork-tailed swift (Apus pacificus)
Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms
russet; tawny; yellow-brown
to appear rustic; to become countrified
large-scale map; detailed map
incredibly brutal; gory; gruesome
monkey wrench; adjustable wrench; shifting spanner
in brief; to put it succinctly
(putting on the) airs of an official
starvation; famine; hunger
all over (the place); throughout; everywhere; every inch; every part; from head to toe
arrow wheel (decorative windmill on the pole on which carp streamers are raised)
mechanical doll; automaton; string puppet; marionette; (fig.) person who follows orders blindly
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls
silver ring; bicycle wheel; bicycle
grabbing; taking (as much as one can hold) by the hand