ambition; aspiration; desire to improve oneself
staying up late; keeping late hours; sitting up late at night; nighthawk
good for the health; healthy; wholesome
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
main cause; primary factor
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to fulfill (conditions); to meet (requirements)
loudly (flinging open a door); with a clatter; with a crash (e.g. of a falling structure); completely (change); utterly; louvre window (door, vent, etc.)
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
environment; circumstance
shortcut; short-cut hairstyle for women
atrocious; fiendish; brutal; villainous
guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
to be interested in; to take an interest in; to care about
specific gravity; relative density; relative importance; weight
matter of life or death; life-and-death problem
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
fruit of a tree; nut; berry
having done ... by mistake; having messed up ...
power; might; authority; spirits; vigor; vigour
poisonous; toxic; noxious; malicious; spiteful; hurtful
pushing though; bulldozing; doing something by force; arm twisting
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
measurement error; calculation error
choice; selection; pickup (phonograph); stylus bar; pickup truck; pickup
suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring