to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude
to have one's horizons broadened
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging
notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card
promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate
by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
to set free; to let go; to release; to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away
just because; even if; even though
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
stepping stones; stone skipping; ducks and drakes
to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); (arch.) to marry off; (arch.) to exile
contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
God; god; ace; king; superior person
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
layman; believer; adherent; follower; laity
with a start; with a jump
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
sense of isolation; (feelings of) loneliness
(with a) whizzing sound; sound of something whizzing by
different (quality, nature); heterogeneous
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
grave; solemn; stern; authoritative; hard (e.g. fact)
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion