older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
shh!; sh!; shush!; shoo!; go away!
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to
older brother; elder brother
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
to finger; to tamper (with)
to whinge; to kvetch; to gripe; to complain; to whine
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
revamping; reshaping; rearranging; reorganizing
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
sutra; Buddhist scriptures
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
retort; back talk; backchat
stormy weather; tempest; chaps (of skin)
stubborn; obstinate; pigheaded
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
with a snap; (break) cleanly; (rejecting) sternly; flatly; smartly; (dressing up) well
to bear; to carry on one's back; to take responsibility for; to accept a duty; to receive (wound); to incur (damage)
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command
to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
hipbone; innominate bone; fortitude; perseverance; endurance
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
to work (someone) hard; to push (someone) around
not only ... but (also); as well as ...
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply
rough; wild; violent; immoderate; extravagant; reckless
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that