manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
one-eyed; first (in a series); initial
swing and a miss; (punching and) failing to make contact; (ending in) failure; fruitless effort
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
without accident; uneventfully; without ...
suddenly; in a flash; quickly; conspicuously; prominently; showily
concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you; you shouldn't have; it's too much
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
looks; countenance; facial features; physiognomy
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
considerably; fairly; quite; rather; pretty
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
to know; to be aware (of); to sense; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
to be possible; to be conceivable; to be likely; to be probable
what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?
wherein; therein; thereinto
to raise one's voice; to shout; to yell; to speak up (e.g. in protest); to speak one's mind
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
just before; just prior to; right in front of; just in front of
wanting (to have); desiring; wishing for; I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
possibility; chance; potential; potentiality; possibility (modal property of a proposition containing no logical contradiction)
way of listening; listener
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
beginning; outset; first; onset
to ask; to enquire; to query