method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
drafting (e.g. a bill); drawing up
capable; able; talented; promising
aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad
lively; vigorous; energetic; full of (energy, appetite, curiosity, etc.); brimming with
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
still; even now; to this day
enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
to plant; to transplant; to instil (idea, feeling, etc.)
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
both hands; both arms; ten
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
demonstration; protest; (giving a) demo; demonstration; exhibition game; exhibition match
state of the war; war situation
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
horseplay; fooling around
extreme logic; extreme argument; unreserved argument
preface; introduction; preamble
sooner or later; in time; eventually
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
thirteenth day of the month; thirteen days
whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom
to be transparent; to be see-through; to be clear; to be clear (voice, sound)
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
this is not the time (for that); that's out of the question right now
speech and conduct; words and deeds
resentment; indignation; anger
origin of an affair; spark that lit the fuse; beginning