the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
to distinguish oneself; to stand out
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
risk aversion; hedging; danger avoidance
modern person; people of today
person requiring special attention; person to be wary of; person under (police) surveillance; dangerous person
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished; tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked
stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump
with; by; because of; on account of; on (a day, date); at (a time)
indulging in every possible luxury
to spend all one's time doing; to do day in, day out; to do nothing but ...; to pass (of days)
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
I can say now (what I couldn't before); now (that things have changed) I don't mind telling you; I couldn't tell you until now; I couldn't have told you this back then
blip bleep; in short repeated movements
to go with the flow; to go with the times
limited; restricted; constrained
various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)
culmination; southing; crossing the meridian
right away; without delay; as soon as possible; very soon
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
perfect; ideal; completely satisfactory; leaving nothing to be desired; faultless; impeccable
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
heavenly beings shown flying around the main image in a temple; Feitian (2008 Chinese space suit)
(gymnastical) giant swing; all-out effort; frenzied activity
careless; sloppy; faulty; using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
lotus flower; Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus); china spoon; lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone
zero degrees (Celsius); freezing point; zero (on a scale)
moonless sky (poetic usage)
to push back; to press back; to force back; to (refuse and) return (something); to give back
to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
main course (of a river); mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)
shock; tremor; impact; vibration
inevitable; inescapable; unavoidable
to rot away; to crumble to dust; to decay completely; to die in obscurity
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up