采: allotment to a feudal noble...
对比: to contrast, contrast, ratio...
首都: capital (city)...
收取: to receive, to collect...
起: batch, group...
家里: home...
序言: preface, introductory remarks, preamble, prelude...
胆小鬼: coward...
位置: position, place, seat...
下: under, second (of two parts), next (week, etc.), lower, below, underneath, down(wards), to decline, to go down, latter...