muffler; scarf; comforter; muffler (for a vehicle exhaust); silencer
irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)
top news; front-page news; lead story
major incident; major happening; big scandal
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
empty lot; vacant plot of land
unique; peculiar; singular
natural calamity; disaster
curious; strange; unusual
to start making a noise; to start making an uproar; to go berserk
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
casualties; killed and wounded; human damage
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
every person; every mouth; every entrance
criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
speaking of; (I told you) already; come on
be absorbed in deep thought; be sunk in thought
to come to one's senses; to calm down
to examine someone's expression
inattention; absent-mindedness
weekend; Saturday and Sunday
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
I; me; self-centered man; egotistical man; pompous man
standing; reserve; always having ready
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty