升: ascend; go up; hoist; rise...
饱经沧桑: having lived through many changes...
坚持: to persevere with, to persist in, to insist on...
番: foreign (non-Chinese), barbarian, classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance), classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc), classifier for situations: k...
搭: to put up, to build (scaffolding), to hang (clothes on a pole), to connect, to join, to arrange in pairs, to match, to add, to throw in (resources), to take (boat, train), variant of...
大街小巷: great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city...
求助: to request help, to appeal (for help)...
宣扬: to proclaim, to make public or well known...
表格: form, table...
生: to be born, to give birth, life, to grow...
