to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
string instrument; stringed instrument
tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre
black suit; mourning clothes; black-suited staff member (e.g. in restaurant, sex establishment, etc.)
manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
very important person; VIP
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
dozens; scores of; decades
abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
brightness; brilliance; brilliancy; radiance; glitter
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
right-angled parallelepiped; cuboid; rectangular solid
area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances
Champagne glass; Champagne flute
ripple; ring on the water; repercussions; Japanese slit drum; instrument made of iron with slits on top; makes a rippling sound
two places; two spots; two locations; two parts; two passages
to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class
scream; shriek; shout; exclamation
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
legendary beast; magical beast
stomach (esp. a pig's stomach or a cow's rumen); pork stomach
to whirl; to eddy; to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.); to surge; to sweep
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; bull; beef
length (of an animal); body length
white (bleached) bone; skeleton
reigning; controlling; dictating
to smash up; to defeat crushingly
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
bad luck; bad fortune; evil; wickedness
shell (of crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; person's back; years of experience