middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
person with a lot of experience; old hand; veteran (in a particular field)
brilliant; splendid; glorious; magnificent; spectacular
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
steady; sound; reliable; solid
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
habitat; home (e.g. of the tiger)
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger
new rice; first rice crop of the year; novice; beginner; newcomer
goods piled beneath; lower layer; lowest social strata; bottom (of the ladder); low rank
(many) trees; every tree; all kinds of trees
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
full portrait; whole aspect; full story
uncivilized; uncivilised; undeveloped (land); unexplored (territory, field, etc.); unbloomed (flower)
mountain range; mountain belt
group; bunch; crowd; group
whim; vagary; capriciousness; eccentricity
to walk in on; to tread upon
search; lookup; hunt; (item of) research; exploration; investigation
ideal; perfect; most suitable; just right
young person; youth; young
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to
impatience; uneasiness; irritation; fretfulness
this and that; this or that; one thing after another
to stop walking; to pause
to cry and shout; to scream
to shout (in anger); to yell
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way
the place for; the time for; the level of