number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout
descent; fall; drop; decline; downturn; subsidence
button (clothing); push-button; button
to push; to thrust; to press (down); to push (e.g. a button); to stamp (e.g. one's name); to affix (a seal); to affix (e.g. gold leaf)
ability; performance; efficiency
congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
interior; inside; internal
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
invisibly; secretly; privately
to hide; to conceal oneself; to disappear (behind); to be hidden (by); to live in seclusion; to retire (from the world)
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on
with a boing; with a sproing; with a crack; with a pop; (hitting) with vigour; with a kick
moderate; reserved; modest; temperate; restrained; low-key
chime; bell (e.g. doorbell)
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
to board (a train, plane, etc.); to get into (a car); to get on (a bus); to march into; to enter; to arrive (at, in)
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
guide; tour guide; guidebook; guide (on a fishing rod); guide ring
light; lamp; counter for electric lights
light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale; faint (feeling, hope, etc.); fleeting; slight
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
until now; till now; up to now; up to the present; so far
to look into; to peep into; to peer into
how; in what way; by what means
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
way (of doing); manner; method; means
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
to lose (something); to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
important; essential; significant; major; key; principal
function; facility; faculty; feature
together with; same; both; all; including ...
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
to play a role; to serve a function; to play a part
inhalation (of air); inhaled air; intake (e.g. of air)
pipe; tube; wind instrument; vessel; duct; counter for tube-shaped objects
to blow through; to blow across
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is