intelligence gathering; information gathering
brain work; mental work; nonmanual labor
of inquiring mind; eager to study; enthusiastic in studying
career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
to entrust; to send (a message, etc.)
look; glance; stone (in the game of go)
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
to hear a rumor; to get wind of
to spoil; to rot; to corrode
tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; demon; devil
powerful person; influential person
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
right in the center (centre)
resting one's chin in one's hands; brace (in construction); angle brace
delicate; minute; fine; detailed; subtle
to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stretch over; to span; to bridge
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
to slip down; to slide down; to glide down
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
life-size; life-sized; true-to-life; faithful (depiction); realistic
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
to stay (at); to stop (at)
wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice
by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
to hit hard; to punch hard; to give a hard blow; to wallop; to sock
voluntary; optional; free; elective
to reach a situation about which nothing can be done
to call (someone) back; to recall; to call home; to bring back (memories, etc.); to recall; to revive
joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)
to plant; to transplant; to instil (idea, feeling, etc.)