demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast
steel frame; steel beam; steel girder
departure (of a boat, plane); setting sail; leaving port; putting out to sea; takeoff
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
departure from a port; leaving port; setting sail
large; large-sized; large-scale; big
tenth day of the month; ten days
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
be (that) as it may; having said that
supply; provision; raising; procurement
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
mostly; almost; nearly; roughly; approximately; about
to be ready; to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be adjusted; to be regulated
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
to prepare oneself for the worst; to strengthen one's resolve; to accept one's fate; to prepare oneself
putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
gold nugget; gold bullion; gold bar; gold ingot
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
temporary; provisional; to do something temporarily (esp. build temporary facilities); to do something provisionally
harbour; harbor; landing place; wharf; anchorage
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
one's field of expertise; one's strong area
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
few decades; many decades; several decades
infrastructure improvement
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)