intense heat; severe heat
erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture
self-torture; masochism; inflicting damage to oneself
to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset
pad; padding; pad (of paper); gamepad
nothing; no balls (or no strikes); count of zero; without; none at all
modest; reserved; discreet; careful; prudent; circumspect
intentional; deliberate; contrived; artificial
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
farewell; goodbye; adieu; if so; in that case; then
accident (caused by negligence); error; blunder; fault; defect
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag
tediously (explain, complain, etc.); repeatedly; persistently; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length
destination (in travel); place where one is staying
to get used to; to become accustomed to; to be at home (on the stage)
Sinologist; scholar of the Chinese classics
is something that; is that which
finally; at last; in the end; ultimately
retort; back talk; backchat
investigation; research; looking something up
oh, OK; oh, I see; oh, yeah?; hmm
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
smirkingly; smugly; broadly
(place) out of sight; (somewhere) out of eyeshot
to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)
the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous
to be pretentious; to put on airs; to show off
very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded
to push into; to stuff into; to be enthusiastic (about); to be crazy (about); to get excited; to be stirred up
to degenerate; to lapse into
to pity; to feel sympathy for; to sympathize with; to enjoy the beauty of; to appreciate; to admire