- war zone; combat zone; (military) theater of operations
- to slip up; to overlook by negligence; careless omission; oversight
- to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
- outer space
- intense heat; extremely hot weather
- to fight over; to contest; to vie over
- decomposed corpse
- naked
- recipient
- (name) Howard
- opportunity; turning point
- to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell; conclusion; end (of a story etc)
- childhood; infancy
- to come down with; to be afflicted with (an illness)
- rheumatic fever
- bicycle; bike; CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- fishing rod
- baseball; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- air war; air warfare
- to open up
- thunder rolls
- so far; to date; until now
- wholeheartedly; (to devote oneself) heart and soul
- 伍 wǔ: 伍 wu3: squad of five soldiers; to associate with; five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)伍 Wǔ: 伍 Wu3: surname Wu
- to sign (one's name with a pen etc); to autograph; signature
- Ohio
- liberal arts; humanities
- master's degree
- to start publishing; to found a journal
- Texas, US state (an official transliteration, but less commonly used than 德克薩斯|德克萨斯[De2 ke4 sa4 si1])
- Los Angeles, California
- University of California
- doctoral degree; PhD
- southwest part
- 讴歌 ōu gē: 讴歌 Ou1 ge1: Acura (Honda car model)讴歌 ōu gē: 讴歌 ou1 ge1: (literary) to celebrate in song; to eulogize