sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
pot (esp. teapot, coffee-pot); vacuum bottle; thermos flask
coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
perestroika (USSR reform movement)
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
with; by; because of; on account of; on (a day, date); at (a time); adds emphasis to preceding word
to be intimate with; to befriend
district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district
looking someone in the eyes; taking a straight look at something
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
evergreen tree; conifer; pine and cypress; duty; constancy
piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off
to till; to plow; to plough; to cultivate
fields (of rice and other crops)
Chinese poem; Chinese poetry
Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
sound of the wind; voice of the wind
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
to surge; to well up; to gush out
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked