article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to make come true (e.g. a dream); to realize; to fulfill
proper; appropriate; due; suitable
compensation; equivalent value; consideration
road; path; way; set of practices; moral education; Buddhist teachings; Taoism
something like ...; something called ...
belief; faith; conviction
to sense; to perceive; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
however; nevertheless; but; and yet; whereas; while
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
thick; deep; kind; cordial; abundant
movements; bearing; deportment; carriage; behavior; behaviour
scholarship; scientific attainments
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
worldly wise; sophisticated; street smart; knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); toughness
sensitivity; sensibility; susceptibility; receptivity
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
younger scholar; future reference
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative
foster parent; adoptive parent; person who raised one; founding figure; key developer
master; teacher; stable master
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
being independent; becoming independent; standing on one's own feet (without the use of crutches, etc.)
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
to go out and away; to leave
(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case
dozens; scores of; decades
day of month; counter for days
anything and everything; just about everything
losing oneself (in); being absorbed (in); forgetting oneself
to be shy; to be bashful; to look shy
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou dynasty Chinese army)
close; intimate; on good terms
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
feel uncomfortable; ill at ease; not feel at home
to feel right; to sit well with one; to be happy about; to suit to a T; to fit well together
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
that's the way it is; such is life