农历: the traditional Chinese calendar, the lunar calendar...
官僚主义: bureaucracy...
小溪: brook, streamlet...
争论: to argue, to debate, to contend, argument, contention, controversy, debate...
竹竿: bamboo, bamboo pole...
温带: temperate zone...
公款: public money...
叙述: to relate (a story or information), to tell or talk about, to recount, narration, telling, narrative, account...
烟: cigarette or pipe tobacco, tobacco plant, (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke...
演说: speech, to deliver a speech...
