hanker for

easily overcome

eine Gelegenheit verpassen

speak straight from one's heart

surpassing all others(cut a brilliant figure)

eloquent in speech

ghosts and monsters

(of food) leftovers(leavings; remnants of a meal)

tower above one's generation

huddle(slight over)

grievous wrong(grievance which has not been redressed)

place obstacles in the way(come between; create difficulties)

put one bed on top of another

be above the common and enter the Holy Land

thousands and thousands

stupid

lovingly pathetic

without jittering

a scene of devastation everywhere

épurer radicalement(passer au crible)