government office building
to get slightly dirty (all over)
clinic; medical office; infirmary
sickroom; hospital room; ward
interruption; suspension; break
press corps; group of reporters
superior (in rank); top; higher order (e.g. byte); host computer (of connected device)
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of
spirit of a dead person; ghost; departed soul
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
father; dad; husband; you; he
to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (cat)
to talk; to chat; to chatter
to relate to; to have one's feelings understood
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
distant look; faraway look
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (a blunder); to disgrace oneself
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference
to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other; to have sex; to make love
please; somehow or other; one way or another