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1 bustling

2 energetic

1 restless with anxiety

2 unbearably hot and anxious

1 claypot (used in cooking)

1 (of a city etc) ablaze with lights

1 deep water and scorching fire

2 abyss of suffering (idiom)

1 to tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion

2 an uprising is afoot (idiom)

1 brightly lit

1 lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom)

2 fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another

1 volcanic activity

2 volcanism

1 to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson

1 Great Firewall of China (system for restricting access to foreign websites)

1 to overact

2 to overdo one's part

1 lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation

2 extreme emergency

1 pitch dark

1 stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt

2 fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling

1 clear as a flame (idiom); to see things absolutely clearly

1 to go through water and tread on fire (idiom); not afraid of any difficulty

1 volcanology

1 gunman

2 musketeer