to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
pochette; pouch (usu. hung from the shoulder by a long cord)
quick; swift; nimble; quick (understanding, judgement, etc.); alert; prompt
child prodigy; infant genius; wonder child
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
with these words; while saying
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
blink (of eyes); wink; twinkling (of stars); flicker (of light); blink (of light)
staringly; scrutinizing; scrutinising
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
appraisal; estimation; evaluation; setting prices
to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)
to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face
choker (type of necklace)
naked; bare; uncovered; frank; open; blunt
weak; feeble; delicate; frail; helpless
arrogant; haughty; insolent
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to act like a grown up; to pretend to be an adult
to take along; to hold in the hand; to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist)
plastic bag; polyethylene bag
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
to throw into; to toss into
as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
planning; planning ability; deliberateness