to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
nameless; unnamed; obscure; unknown; causeless; unjustifiable
slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; good family
elder sister; older female friend
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
cutting (cloth, paper); judgement; judgment; decision
scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
shah; former ruler of Iran
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about
to trample; to crush underfoot
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
mental condition; state of mind; mentality
area; domain; territory; field; range; region
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
just now; a moment ago; this very minute
but; however; provided that
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
to increase; to add to; to augment
ass; arse; rear; end; acupuncture point; hole
to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (somebody)
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
to find out; to discover; to locate
to cause casualties; to result in deaths
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence