1 Jingzhou prefecture-level city on Changjiang in Hubei

1 thistles and thorns

2 brambles

3 thorny undergrowth

1 Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)

1 lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)

2 fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way

3 to break through hardships

4 to blaze a new trail

1 my wife (humble)

1 lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)

2 fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way

3 to break through hardships

4 to blaze a new trail

1 to treat sb with courtesy (idiom)

1 lit. a path covered in brambles

2 a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)

1 thorns and brambles as far as eye can see (idiom); beset by troubles

1 lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom)

2 fig. to offer sb a humble apology