how about ...?; what about ...?; I wonder; I don't know
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
two (long cylindrical things)
to be a matter of life or death; to be life-threatening
obstacle; impediment; disability; handicap; steeplechase; obstacle race
period of youth; while young
to flare up; to burst into flames
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
roughly; broadly; generally; more or less
to the end; entirely; in full
index finger; forefinger; first (occ. second) finger; second toe
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
close; intimate; on good terms
dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
at that time; in those days
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
unanticipated; unexpected
to replace; to convert; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
dear (old); fondly remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
to grow up; to become an adult
good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)
physique; physical standard; physical condition; posture; (body) position; sexual position
posture; position; stance
correction; revision; amendment
funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable
to divide; to separate; to partition; to punctuate; to mark off (with a comma); to insert pauses (between words or phrases when reading aloud)
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
to put to bed; to let sleep; to lay (something) down; to put on its side; to let (money, goods, etc.) lie idle; to set aside unused
to pick up; to adopt (a proposal); to take up (a topic); to take issue with; to make a problem of; to report (news); to cover
than; in comparison to; rather than; over; above
to lie down; to throw oneself down
to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head