(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
hunting; hunt; gathering (mushrooms, shellfish, etc.); picking (berries, fruit, etc.); hunting down (a criminal, etc.); rounding up (e.g. communists)
inspection; examination; survey
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
foreign country; another country; another province; strange land; alien land
sight; attraction; spectacle; something worth seeing
all ages; great antiquity; eternity
magnificent spectacle; thrilling sight; grand view
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
vivid; bright; brilliant; skillful; skilful; adroit
to be astonished; to be amazed; to be astounded; to be deeply impressed
valley; ravine; gorge; canyon
to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)
to take down in notes (meeting minutes, etc.); to apply (concepts, ideas, etc. to specific processes or methods); to drop into something (e.g. a bag); to entice; to lure
flood; freshet; inundation
downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
upper part; upper stream; upper course of a river; right side of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage left (actor's POV); skillful (in comparisons)
waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
to be about to get on (a train, bus, etc.); to be about to board; to start (doing); to begin; to get on top of; to lean over
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
skill; expertise; experience; proficiency; mastery; dexterity
laborer (labourer); construction worker; coolie
fire hook; firefighter's hook
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
discharge (e.g. of water from a dam); release of fish (into a river, pond, etc.); stocking with fish (a river, etc.); (arch.) banishment; (arch.) exile
battlefield; battleground
admiration; praise; prizing; appreciation
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic
to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
food and (alcoholic) drinks; food eaten with an alcoholic drink; accompaniment to a drink
being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria
to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest
large-hearted; generous; liberal; placid; composed; cool
you; (arch.) your residence
biographical notes and character sketches of prominent individuals, arranged according to place of birth or origin