advance (into a new market, industry, etc.); expansion (into); launch (into); advance (to the next round of a competition)
to make light of; to ignore; to slight
to maintain itself; to last; to make itself pay; to make a living; to keep going
provisional; temporary; tentative; interim
raising plants; cultivating (vegetation); planting; one's plants; cultivated vegetation; one's crops
craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman
to take pains (doing something); to take great care
cloudless (sky); without a cloud (in the sky)
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
to surge; to well up; to gush out
obi (kimono sash); obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product); band; belt; cingulum; radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days
to praise; to extol; to hail; to laud; to celebrate
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
unripe; green; immature; immature; inexperienced; unskilled
amount of material resources
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
loud laughter; roaring with laughter
narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
to incur someone's enmity
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
one's view of life and death; attitude toward living and dying
beyond imagination; unimaginable
looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia
middle part; medium depth (water); medium layer; medium-size; mid-level; medium-rise (building)
meat shield; human shield; vagina wall; fleshy wall; wall of flesh (e.g. in sci-fi)
to be completely changed (for the worse); to be transformed
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue
pressure; pressure (e.g. political); arm-twisting
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
(several) tens; dozens; scores (of)
acceleration; speeding up
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like
crack; crevice; split; opening of the vagina; slit
to stretch; to reach to; to stand on tiptoe
pollution; contamination; corruption; graft