to be preeminent; to be outstanding
sharp-eyed; keen-eyed; easily awakened
enumeration; citation; listing
slim figure; slender body; slimming; weight reduction
to grip; to grasp; to squeeze
trouble; troubles; worry; distress; sorrows; anguish
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
meeting; rendezvous; meeting for the first time; coming across; confluence
as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly
manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to mishear; to hear wrongly; to misunderstand
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
based on; built on; made from
existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no
firm; unshakeable; resolute
elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
reason for being; raison d'être
willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling
one's future; one's fate; prospects; one's way; one's path
authenticity; credibility
uncertain; unreliable; inauthentic; insecure
to show up; to appear; to turn up
to have a relationship; to have relations
nervousness; oversensitivity
vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous
to create (a sensation); to cause (a commotion); to give rise to (controversy); to raise (a cloud of dust); to kick up (dust)
calamity; disaster; misfortune
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
to hint at; to intimate; to suggest; to allude to; to imply
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
escape; flight; breakout; fleeing; desertion
capital crime; crime resulting in a death penalty
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
the very best; excellent; superb
everything; anything; nothing
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
to bring to a finish; to bind firmly; to superintend
western army (e.g. in a civil war); Western Army (at the Battle of Sekigahara)