1 urgent

2 pressing

3 rapid

4 hurried

5 worried

6 to make (sb) anxious

1 to make known

2 to show

3 to prove

4 to write

5 book

6 outstanding

1 famous

2 noted

3 well-known

4 celebrated

1 original work (not translation or abridged)

1 masterpiece

1 lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one's whole body and soul into a book

1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation

2 dire straits

1 poles apart (idiom)

2 as different as can be

1 to examine tiny clues to know general trends (idiom)

2 to deduce the whole story from small traces

1 hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom)

2 one just has to be patient

3 haste will ruin everything