1 person

2 figure

3 public figure

1 a warrior

2 a brave person

1 doctor

2 court academician (in feudal China)

3 Ph.D.

1 surname Shi

1 in history

1 gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals

1 those with lofty ideals (idiom)

2 men of vision

1 to learn from history (idiom)

1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people

1 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point

2 idiom mocking scholastic pomposity