futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to attract notice; to catch the eye; to stand out
besides; in addition; also; moreover
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
comfortable (to live in); snug; cosy; cozy
secret language; jargon; cant; argot; slang
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
to roll about; to writhe about
to be cloying; to be sick and tired with; to be disgusted with; to stink
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
domestic animals; livestock; cattle
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
snake; serpent; large snake
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
to harm; to cause harm to
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
to stroke; to caress; to brush gently; to comb (hair); to smooth down
to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
to complain; to make a complaint
(tear) to pieces; (rip) apart; with a rattle; with a shudder; feeling an electric shock
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
honorific/polite/humble prefix
this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
fingertip; finger; toe tip; toe