1 stair

2 staircase

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 surname Tian

1 fields

2 countryside

3 rural

4 bucolic

1 flight of steps

2 (fig.) a means of advancement

3 stepping stone

1 elevator

2 escalator

3 classifier: 台 tái

4 classifier: 部 bù

1 lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom)

2 fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life

1 lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes

2 life's vicissitudes

1 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)

2 fig. the transformations of the world

1 lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)

2 fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion

3 innocent acts may be misconstrued

1 Tian Ji races his horses (and accepts one loss in order to ensure two wins) (idiom)