to continue; to keep up; to keep on
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
imagination; supposition; guess
the past is the past; let bygones be bygones
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address
to hold one's tongue; to shut up
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect
to go too far; to go to excess; to carry too far
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
transportation; conveyance; delivery; hospitalization; transfer to hospital
white clothes; white robe; white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.); commoner without rank (in ancient China); layperson
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to sprawl; to lie sprawled; to stretch oneself out; to lie relaxed on one's side
answer a roll call for another
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
spirit; mind; nature; disposition; motivation; intention
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
locker room; changing room; dressing room