31.闪光
shine: The most general one.
(闪耀) glitter: To shine brightly with flashing points of light.
All that glitters is not gold.
(发火花) sparkle: To shine in small flashes.
It suggests uneven¹, bright flashes reflected from light-catching objects.
We can see a diamond sparkling in the sunlight.
(闪光) flash: To give out a sudden and monetary² bright ray of light/
To shine suddenly for a moment.
(闪耀) glisten³: To shine from or as if from a wet surface.
His hair glistened⁴ with oil. The wet road glistened.
(闪烁) gleam: To send out a bright light moderately, mildly not violently.
A cat's eye gleamed in the dark. The lantern gleamed.
(冒火花) spark: To send out small bits of fire.
He was so angry that his eyes sparked furiously.
(闪烁不定) flicker⁵: To burn unsteadily, shine with an unsteady light.
The candle flickered⁶ and then went out.
glimmer⁷: To give a very faint, unsteady light.
The lights glimmered⁸ in the distance.
(闪烁) twinkle: To shine with a unsteady light that rapidly changes from fright to faint.
The stars are twinkling in the sky in the evening.
glow: To give out heat and/or light without flames or smoke.
The iron bar was heated until it glowed.
(闪烁) glint: To give out small flashes of light, as the eyes of an eager person are supposed to do
The sun glinted through the leaves after the shower.
(眩光) glare: To shine with a strong light in a way unpleasant to the eyes.
The lights of the car glared at me.
flame: To burn brightly.
You can see the burning log flaming.
(冒火苗) blaze: To burn with a bright flame.
The house is blazing.
(闪闪燃烧) flare⁹: To burn with a bright flame, but uncertainly or for a short time.
The candles flared¹⁰ in the wind.
dazzle: To make unable to see because of a sudden very strong light.
The headlight dazzles.
coruscate¹¹: (fml) to flash, sparkle.
The sparks coruscated¹².
scintillate¹³:
The gems¹⁴ scintillate.

32.大
big: Large in size, extent or important.
large: Much bigger than average
great: Very large, important, and good.
great change / great writer / great idea.
huge: Very fig¹⁵ in size, amount and degree.
It stresses volume.(体积)
a huge house/ make a huge profit.
vast: Very large and wide, great in size or amount.
It stresses area.(体积)two dimensional extensions
It is a vast expanse of desert.
Vast plains/ vast majority / at vast expanse.
immense: Very great in size or degree./very large or huge.
It stresses three dimensional largesse¹⁶.
It implies immeasurableness.
an immense palace/ immense importance
The government will build an immense stadium.
enormous: Extremely large./Very large in size, amount or degree.
It stresses not only size but degree.
It implies abnormality.
He earned enormous sums of money
an enormous animal/ enormous appetite/ enormous amount
tremendous: Extraordinarily¹⁷ large in size, amount or degree. / Large or impressive
It implies astonishment¹⁸, terror.
tremendous speed / tremendous noise/ tremendous amount /tremendous feeling.
gigantic: Immense in size, on a very large scale like a giant.
titanic¹⁹: Very big or important.
It refers back to the Titans, a race of giant in Greek mythology²⁰. It stresses force and power.
We"ve made titanic effort to achieve our purpose.
colossal²¹: Very large indeed.
It comes from Colossus of Rhodes a huge statue that is
one of the wonders of the ancient world.
It implies incredibility.

33.感情
feeling(s): It can refer to mind or body. It"s either pleasant or painful.
(感觉) sensation: (u c n) A direct feeling coming from the senses and conveyed to the nervous system by the organs of seeing, hearing, touching²², tasting or smelling. Sugar gives a sensation of sweetness.
(激情) emotion: (c n) Any of the strong feelings of the human spirit Love, joy, anger, hatred²³ and grief are emotions.
His speech had an effect on our emotions rather than our reason.
(强烈的激情) passion: Strong emotions, strong, deep often uncontrollable
feeling, esp. of sexual love, hatred or anger.
The poet expressed his burning passion for the woman he loved.
(情操 情趣) sentiment: (u c n) A tender or fine feeling as of pity, love, sadness or imaginative remembrance of the past.
It"s not a beautiful watch, but I wear it for sentiment because it is my father"s. Admiration²⁴, patriotism²⁵ and loyalty²⁶ are sentiments.