very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding
grandchild from a daughter married into another family
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)
singing one's own praises; praising one's own wares
to be amazed; to be shocked; to be astonished; to be astounded; to be disgusted; to be exasperated
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
really; truly; indeed; good grief
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
instant; moment; for an instant
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
by means of; due to; because of; according to
emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
expression; presentation; representation; notation
individual; private person; personal; private
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
indicate reason; infers some protest
twenty years of age; youth; early age; tender age of ...
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
order of chivalry; chivalric order
examination; exam; test; trial; experiment; test
success; passing (e.g. exam); eligibility
expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately
branch family; cadet family; establishing a branch family
to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
to speak ill of; to disparage
both; both sides; both parties