to cause a person trouble
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
dispute; conflict; trouble; strife
to buy up; to lay in a stock; to stock up; to buy a lot
cooking; food preparation
wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
condition; figure; appearance; voice
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
above-mentioned; above-stated; aforementioned; aforesaid
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to put someone to work; to make someone work
spiritual life; inner life; mental life
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
much more; not to mention; not to speak of; to say nothing of; let alone
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
light; well-lit; bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; cheerful; bright; encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.)
railing; guard rail; (arch.) (shining) brightly (of the moon or stars); (arch.) (flowing) endlessly (of tears)
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
bright white (esp. for snow and ice); brilliant white
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
to endeavor (endeavour); to try; to strive; to make an effort; to exert oneself; to be diligent
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
repetition; repeat; reiteration; repeatedly
appearance; arrival; make one's appearance