pictorial book; picture book; illustrated reference book; identification manual; field guide
journal; magazine; periodical
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
book; volume; this; present; main; head
major; large; the Major Leagues; Major League Baseball; major (key, scale, etc.); (oil) major
desirable; hoped for; preferable; advisable
much-discussed work (book, film, etc.)
check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest
I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
blue sky; azure sky; spring sky
(air or sea) route; course; line; run
complete set (of volumes); every volume; whole volume; whole film; whole reel
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes)
Japanese person; Japanese people
bulletin board; display board; notice board; electronic bulletin board; BBS
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled; mowing down the enemy
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to infer (from); to deduce; to think (something) through; to ponder deeply
to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at
the place for; the time for; the level of
sudden; abrupt; impromptu skit; bandwagon fan; fair-weather fan
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
popularization; simplification; explaining in simple language; adaptation of history for popular reading (esp. Chinese); historical novel writing
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
trivial; not amounting to much
at that time; in those days
hardcore crowd; people who take their hobby or interest very seriously
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation