before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
sudden; abrupt; unexpected
somewhat; to some extent; to some degree; some; part; portion
to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)
farmer; farming family; farmhouse
common use; communal use; sharing
pole on which to hang laundry for drying; clothesline
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
carbonic acid; carbonated water; baking soda; sodium carbonate
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
drone; unmanned aircraft; drone
talking in delirium; incoherent muttering
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
with a friendly grin; smilingly
remains; corpse; (dead) body
having an audience with someone of very high social standing (e.g. the emperor)
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
drinking and eating too much
to slip into (a place) for the purposes of having sex (e.g. a lover's house, hotel, red light district); to shack up with; to shut oneself away at home (due to lack of money)
outbreak (e.g. of war); outburst; sudden occurrence
with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft); with a thrust; with a stab; sullenly; sulkily; glumly
flash (of light); glint; schiller
to cross one's mind; to be reminded
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
to burn; to kindle; to heat (a bath); to light (a stove); to use (a camera flash)
moving about; stirring about
lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
chance to win; opportunity to win; chance of victory
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend