craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman
working earnestly; sincerity; diligence; effort; pains
cloudless (sky); without a cloud (in the sky)
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
to surge; to well up; to gush out
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled
amount of material resources
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
loud laughter; roaring with laughter
narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
to incur someone's enmity
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
one's opinion on (life and) death
beyond imagination; unimaginable
looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia
middle part; medium depth (water); medium layer; medium-size; mid-level; medium-rise (building)
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue
pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
acceleration; speeding up
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like
chasm; interstice; crevice; vulva; slit; cunt
to stretch; to reach to; to stand on tiptoe
pollution; contamination; corruption; graft
to look down over; to look down on
suddenly; at once; considerably; very much; firmly; with an effort
triumphant pose assumed by an athlete
to flip-flop; to do an about-face; (lit.) to flip over one's hand; to do something easy
upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys); upper layer; layer above