Chinese poem with five characters per line
destructive power; destructive energy; destructive force
laborer (labourer); construction worker; coolie
human-wave tactics; throwing people at a problem
one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
the passage of electric current
short circuit; short; illogical jump; drawing a hasty inference (between two events); jumping to conclusions
to point upward; to look upward; to improve
to get change back; to be more than enough
waterway; channel; wake (of a ship)
enumeration; citation; listing
to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to dunk
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
near; nearby; not far off
fixed value; constant value
mass of rock; rock lump; block
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
to be shut; to close; to be firm (of a body, face, etc.); to be well-knit; to be locked; to tighten
a lot; many; (not) much; (not) many; almost (none)
fool; nitwit; The Fool (Tarot card)
soil; breeding ground; fertile ground (for); foundation (for the development of ...)
stronghold; fortress; strategic position; key position
to pitch camp; to set up camp
advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde (e.g. music)
unable to leave the work at hand; right in the middle of something; tied up; busy
to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
unable to fight (esp. in video games); unconscious; knocked out; dead
middle guard; halfback (e.g. football); center forward (e.g. volleyball); centre forward