sword skills; swordsmanship
professor; teaching; instruction
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding; approval; consent
secret information; intelligence
victory celebration party; victory banquet
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
mole; whistle-blower; informant; adulterer; adulteress
stoppage; interruption; cessation; suspension
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
entrance (on the stage); appearance (in a book, film, etc.); appearance (on the scene); arrival (on the market); emergence
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
to push aside; to thrust aside; to brush aside; to reject; to remove; to take out
as stated; verbatim; literally
(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
pluralizing suffix; nickname-forming suffix
consenting to; agreeing to; understanding; being convinced of; being satisfied
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
imagination; supposition; guess
adverse circumstances; unfortunate situation; adversity
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot); forerunner; pioneer
to run away; to flee; to avoid (a question, responsibility, etc.); to evade; to win without being overtaken; to hold off the other contenders (until the finish)
substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)
huge win; overwhelming victory
it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
can do nothing but ...; have no choice but to ...; there is nothing to do but ...; cannot help ...
doubting; distrustful; incredulous; suspicious
uncharacteristic; unbefitting; unworthy (of)
to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up
underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
underestimation; undervaluation
the same; the said; likewise
feelings; thoughts; meaning
trivial; not amounting to much