unworthy / to let down / I'm sorry / excuse me / pardon me / if you please / sorry? (please repeat)

(of an aircraft) to take off

to give rise to / to lead to / to cause / to arouse

amazing / terrific / extraordinary

to lift / to raise in height / to begin / upsurge / to set off (a campaign)

at the minimum / at the very least

origin / to originate / to come from

originally / at first / at the outset

to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs

to stand up / to get up / also pr. [qi3 lai2]

(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5]

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

in the same place / together / with / altogether (in total)

seemingly / apparently / looks as if / appear to be / gives the impression that / seems on the face of it to be

to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time)

to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power)

cheese (loanword) (Tw)

starting point

initial price (e.g. for the first kilometer) / prices starting from

to recall / to think of / to call to mind

(in an expression of the form 起到…作用) to have (a (motivating etc) effect) / to play (a (stabilizing etc) role)

origin

to get up on hind legs (esp. of horse) / to stand / to spring up

to get up / to leave / to set forth

to originate

to mention / to bring up (a subject) / with regard to / as for

to set out / to set in motion / the start (of some activity)

to sound like

to start running / the start of a race

(of a sound) to come forth / (of a sound source) to ring out / to sound / to go off

motive / purpose / (sth) being the motive or purpose

to stand up

to catch fire / to cook / to get angry

to start / at first / beginning

to lift up

to heave / to lift / to raise up / to uphold

compared with

to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages

to mention / to speak of / to lift / to pick up / to arouse / to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc)

to start up (a motor) / to launch (a computer application)

to set about (doing sth)

to sue / to bring a lawsuit against / to prosecute

to look down upon / to despise

to arise again / to make a comeback / resurgence

to arouse / to evoke / to cause / to stir up

to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by

beginning and end (dates)

to remember / to recall

to rise / to spring up / to burgeon / to be aroused / to come into vogue

to provoke / to stir up / to incite

proposer / initiator / founding member

to raise one's head / to perk up

cheese (loanword) (Tw)

baking soda (used to leaven bread) / screwdriver / bottle opener

to appear on the scene / to arise suddenly

to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

to appear / to emerge / to surface

to summon one's courage

cannot afford / can't afford buying

to name / to christen / to take a name

screwdriver

to mention / to speak of / to talk about

to look down upon / to hold in contempt

uprising / insurrection / revolt

not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of

to bubble / to foam / to blister / to sprout boils (on one's body) / sparkling (wine etc)

convex / protruding / to protrude / to bulge / to buckle upwards

to surround / to encircle / to enclose / to fence in

to stick up / to point sth up

to get better / to improve / to get well

vigorously / energetically / enthusiastically

to get out of bed / to get up

starter (for sourdough breadmaking)

to calculate / to estimate / in total / all told / (fig.) if you think about it

to well up / to boil out / to bubble forth / to spurt

can't stand it / to be unable to bear / to be unable to resist

to be able to withstand / to be able to endure

can't afford to offend / dare not provoke / difficult to deal with / insufferable

at first / in the beginning

living room / sitting room

indictment (law) / statement of charges (law)

a turn for the better / to pick up / to improve

Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國｜秦国, the victor at 長平｜长平 in 260 BC / same as 公孫起｜公孙起

the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race)

to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds

lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback

(dialect) to step aside / Get out of the way!

to raise / to lift up (curtains, clothing etc)

to show respect for / to think highly of

to rise high / to spring up

lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path

cannot afford / cannot bear the burden

cheesecake

sit-up (physical exercise)

(of aircraft) to take off and land

erection / to have an erection

to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)

to be on an equal footing

erectile dysfunction (ED)

to bear / to shoulder (responsibilities etc)