1 at first

2 (at the) beginning

3 first

4 junior

5 basic

1 first day of lunar month

2 New Year's Day

3 first year in junior middle school

1 to ascend

2 to rise to the rank of

3 to promote

4 to hoist

5 liter

6 measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗[dǒu]

1 to escalate (in intensity)

2 to go up by one grade

3 to be promoted

4 to upgrade (computing)

1 to rise

2 to go up

3 to ascend

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)

2 young and inexperienced

3 novice

4 greenhorn

1 lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom)

2 fig. the fearlessness of youth

1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)

2 fig. the young are fearless

1 lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent

2 first sign of emerging talent

3 budding genius