the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt
suffix for familiar person
seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that
in one's own way or style
after a long time; for the first time in a while
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
to press forward; to forge ahead; to push on
modernization; modernisation
hostility; antagonism; opposition
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
to continue (going along some trend)
bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation; onlookers see more of the game than the players do; (lit.) people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
to stand in (someone's) place; to be in a (certain) position
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)
unexpectedly; surprisingly
frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
dimness; obscurity; indistinctness; unclear; unintelligible
head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent
invention; intelligent; clever; (arch.) making sense (of something); (arch.) understanding
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
guess; conjecture; supposition; inference
coefficient; factor; proportional constant
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
looking like a ...; acting as if a ...
closing part of a balance sheet; balance of accounts
joint together; opposite; facing
criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
on the occasion of; at the time of
harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict
essence; true nature; substance; reality
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
nuclear power plant; nuclear power generation; primary (e.g. primary immunodeficiency syndrome)
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable