sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
fault; weakness; flaw; crux (of a matter); difficult point; point of contention
encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)
type 1; category 1; first class
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay
apprehensions; misgivings; uneasiness; anxiety; fear
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
to take advantage (of somebody's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on
profitable plan; good plan
commander; commanding officer; CO
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
state of emergency; emergency; crisis
to gasp for air; to pant; to be out of breath
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess
pieces; scraps; disconnected
gap; break; pause; interval; cut; incision
to have a rumor circulating
to shoot or fire off an arrow
a little; a bit; slightly
at a stroke; with a single swoop
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
enclosing wall; boundary fence; obstacle; barrier
to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across