悲欢离合: joys and sorrows, partings and reunions, the vicissitudes of life...
免职: to relieve sb of his post, to sack, to demote, dismissal, sacking...
老百姓: ordinary people, the person in the street...
价钱: price...
痰: phlegm, spittle...
民俗: popular custom...
就: at once, then, right away, only, (emphasis), to approach, to move towards, to undertake...
少有: rare, infrequent...
势力: power, influence, a force (military, political etc)...
配偶: consort, mate, spouse...
