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1 if only it were so

2 I hope so (idiom)

1 Tennyson (name)

2 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet

1 St Denis or St Dennis

1 there is no harm in saying what one thinks (idiom)

1 Gdansk, city on Baltic in north Poland

1 Book of Daniel

1 lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom)

2 fig. to take a risk-averse approach

1 but

2 however

1 Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲

1 not only

1 every single

2 as long as

1 not only (... but also...)

1 Matthan, son of Eleazar and father of Jakob in Matthew 1.15

1 proviso

2 qualifying clause

1 if only (sth were possible)

2 I wish (that)

1 but

2 yet

3 however

4 only

5 merely

6 still

1 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁