deterioration; changing for the worse
Asian hazel (Corylus heterophylla var. thunbergii); Siberian hazel
cheerful; lively; lighthearted
cheerful; bright; clear; clean; honest
foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone
to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
internal conditions; true state of affairs
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
best article under heaven; peerless
plant and equipment; production equipment; productive capacity
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
to intervene; to stop (something)
to scale (mountain, flight of stairs, etc.)
projection; protrusion; lump; bulge
small tiger; light drinker; occasional drinker
to call a person's attention (to)
going around; patrol; round; tour
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
to thrust before; to thrust at
solar day (esp. on planets other than Earth); sol (currency of Peru)
statue; picture; picture revealing character
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
high praise; great admiration; rave reviews
to go unpunished; to be tolerated; to be allowed; to be overlooked
colouring; coloring; shade (of colour); flavour; nuance; feel
bad taste (e.g. in clothes); poor taste
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling
very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy
Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty
Qin Shi Huang (259 BCE-210 BCE), first emperor of unified China; Shihuangdi