问鼎轻重

lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power

to ask / to inquire

to ask; to inquire

to aspire to the throne / to aim at (the first place etc)

ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage

severity (of the case) / degree of seriousness / whether sth is slight or serious

to repeat / repetition / again / re- / classifier: layer

heavy / serious / to attach importance to