化妆: to put on makeup...
公职: civil service, public office, government job...
开头: beginning, to start...
身不由己: without the freedom to act independently (idiom); involuntary, not of one's own volition, in spite of oneself...
外婆: (coll.) mother's mother, maternal grandmother...
不许: not to allow, must not, can't...
畅谈: to talk freely, to discuss without inhibition...
占领: to occupy (a territory), to hold...
见仁见智: opinions differ (idiom)...
华人: ethnic Chinese person or people...
