stopping (of a train, car, etc.); stop
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to get thin; to taper off
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
transactions; dealings; business
Shangdi (creator deity in Chinese folk religion); God
only; merely; but; no more than
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
astounding; tremendous; crazy; exorbitant
scene; spectacle; sight; view
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
visual confirmation; sighting
beyond one's control; nothing one can do
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
to turn over; to turn upside down; to knock over; to tip over; to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
meanwhile; in the meantime
creation; generation; formation; derivation
anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case
one side; one party; counterpart; one of a pair; fellow; mate
careful; scrupulous; thorough; conscientious; elaborate; deliberate
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
from the beginning; from scratch
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
already completed (arrived, happened, etc.)
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
noon; midday; daytime; lunch