宗: school, sect, purpose, model, ancestor, clan, to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work), classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs...
实话实说: to tell the truth, to tell it as it is...
风气: general mood, atmosphere, common practice...
好客: hospitality, to treat guests well, to enjoy having guests, hospitable, friendly...
官僚: bureaucrat, bureaucracy, bureaucratic...
治理: to govern, to administer, to manage, to control, governance...
沐浴: to take a bath, to bathe, to immerse...
等: class, rank, grade, equal to, same as, to wait for, to await, et cetera, and so on, et al. (and other authors), after, as soon as, once...
诉说: to recount, to tell of, to relate, (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)...
资产: property, assets...