to behave; to conduct oneself; to act; to treat (someone) to (food or drink); to entertain (e.g. to lunch)
to get on a horse; to mount a horse
fortunately; luckily; thankfully
dramatic; exciting; touching; extreme
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
to bring (news, knowledge, etc.); to introduce; to bring about; to cause; to produce (e.g. results)
in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
gradually; slowly but steadily; little by little; inch by inch
being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing; manifesting
deterioration; getting worse; worsening; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
to hang; to suspend; to hang oneself; to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth; to turn upwards (as if being pulled); to be slanted (of eyes)
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
in the same way as; just like
lesson; class; teaching; instruction; classwork; schoolwork
studying under; looking up to; apprenticing oneself to
agricultural technology; farming techniques
cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir
ear (of a cereal plant); head; point (of a brush, spear, etc.); tip; crest (of a wave); scion (in grafting)
full of openings; half empty; (cutting) sharply; cleanly; (arch.) (progressing) smoothly
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
thin (of an object); pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.)
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
symptoms; condition (of a patient)
distant view; looking from a distance; being able to see a long distance; good long-distance vision; farsightedness
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly
unseasonable weather; fickle weather; bad weather