to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
dance hall; dance floor; landing (stairs); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
body; physical system; (the) person
light; faint; pale; fleeting
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart
to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to
underground lake; subterranean lake
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
swaying; swinging; rocking; shaking; wavering; flickering
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
cripple; disabled person; invalid
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
lump of meat; piece of flesh; human body
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
stomach; Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
forcibly; against one's will
to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be sprained; to be snapped; to be broken
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do