in absolute terms

in absolute terms measured by itself, not in comparison with other things从绝对意义上说:•In absolute terms wages have risen, but not in comparison with the cost of living.从绝对意义上说，工资是提高了，但同生活费用相比较就不能这样说了。

• do lunch / do a movie etc
• mesonics
• I promise you
• United Arab States
• on the stretch
• stand fast/firm
• the first comer
• makalus
• ROTC
• litres
• set on one's head
• butterwort
• corporally
• ulcerousness
• roaster
• Diagnosis-Related Groups
• flitter
• diktat
• Thursdays
• feudal
• bondable
• on the line
• prod cast
• slash-saw
• pullups
• be in the same boat (as sb)
• take a leaf out of another’s book
• After you!
• lose one's nerve
• rhodoras
• fearlessly
• sing a different song
• allurest
• wain
• overgrinding
• cross-correlations
• whereto
• kgr
• ecotone
• liquefied petroleum gas
• self-quenching
• tempt one's fortune (或 fate)
• lostnesses
• lineman
• coucal
• tangram
• stand a chance
• disagreeable
• chicken cholera
• polling
• vixen file
• eye lotion
• hydrothermal solution
• xenogenic
• disturb the peace
• Starker, Janos
• self-satisfaction
• gripes
• lop and crop
• immediate knowledge
• fungated
• cornfed
• lexicalizes
• sacred cow
• diamagnetize
• tape cartridges
• emulsifying
• doodying
• in spirit
• combinatory
• peroration
• idler frequency
• wave about
• crystal video receiver
• turbidnesses
• Mdms.
• hornpipe
• disabled list
• Czech
• come-as-you-are
• adjunct professor
• tree swallow
• Dobus
• literalization
• epural
• darky
• bully trees
• catchings
• kitchen sinks
• industrial schools
• armed hostilities
• come turn up again like a bad penny
• molluscs
• histopathologists
• tokonoma
• heavy sky / clouds
• ureterolith
• meet your eye(s)
• sussos
• Miquelon