no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
marshy grassland; wetlands
free; unrestricted; (with) complete mastery; completely in control
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
detour; circumvention; turning movement
to knock down; to knock off
not a little; not a few; considerable
to damage; to do harm; to disadvantage
fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing
stickiness; viscosity; tenacity; persistence
totalization; totalisation; aggregation; tally (e.g. of votes); adding up; summing up
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
right-wing (politics); extreme right-wing group; right wing (bird, plane, etc.); right field; right flank; right fielder; high rank
shorthanded; short of hands; undermanned; insufficient (stock, money, etc.); in short supply; low
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
to stop walking; to pause
chance (of success); odds
battle formation; disposition of troops
100,000; hundred thousand
front; frontage; facade; main
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
full capacity; all one's ability
(not) even when using ...; (not) even with the help of ...; (not) even by ...
aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much
to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of
to throw into; to toss into
calm; composed; cool; quiet
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
to be enlivened; to be exhilarated
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
four times; four colour process printing (color); CMYK printing