1 leading role

2 lead

1 to establish

2 to set up

3 to found

1 independent

2 independence

3 to stand alone

1 forthwith

2 immediate

3 prompt

4 promptly

5 straightway

6 thereupon

7 at once

1 immediately

1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)

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

1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences

2 incompatible standpoints

1 to fight and scheme against each other (idiom)

2 (in palace construction) elaborate and refined

1 lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom)

2 fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation

3 to want to have one's cake and eat it too