spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful
to be choppy (of waves); to be rough; to wave (e.g. in the wind); to beat fast (of a heart); to be in turmoil; to be in discord
descent; fall; drop; passing down (of an order, decree, etc.)
spinning rapidly; turning quickly; fast-forward (VCR, etc.); scanning
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
that; the matter in question
not yet known; unknown; strange
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
to swell; to rise; to bulge; to rouse; to get excited
buzzer; personal alarm (loud buzzer to attract attention in case of attack)
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
nailing on; nailing down; being stationary; being rooted to the spot; (price) pegging
to jump (out of the way); to jump back; to jump aside
to bite and tear; to bite a hole in
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
to crawl out of; to creep out of
six (long cylindrical things)
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out
several minutes; a few minutes