to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
counter for parts, stages, installments, etc. (of a story, series, project, campaign, etc.); counter for bullets
light; illumination; glow; lamp; light
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)
heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
to take someone's life; to kill someone
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
drama; play; powerful drug
(brute) force; using all one's might
to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch
to shave off; to scrape off
diligent; earnest; attentive to detail; brisk (working, moving); frequent (e.g. checking)
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
to gain experience; to accumulate experiences
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
ancient and modern times; all ages; past and present
art of war; strategy; tactics
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
someone (something) not to be trifled with
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); solution (to a given problem); answer; explanation; interpretation
to arrive (at one's destination); to reach; to come to a head; to reach a conclusion; to culminate (in)
(one) could even say that
article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price
precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
to sniff out; to catch the scent of
main cause; primary factor