1 sky

1 safe and sound

2 well

3 without mishap

4 quiet and safe

5 at peace

1 ordinarily

2 in normal times

3 in peacetime

1 flat

2 dull

3 ordinary

4 nothing special

1 platform

2 terrace

3 flat-roofed building

1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)

2 willful

3 one's own way

4 dogmatic

1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved

2 many twists and turns to a story

3 one thing after another

1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)

2 to read very rapidly

1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)

2 fig. to be impartial

1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)