seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
surely; certainly; without doubt
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
instant; moment; for an instant
demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
sex; sexual intercourse; (one's) sex; gender
to be closed; to be blocked; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
objection; refutation; rebuttal; counterargument
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
actual place; actual location; the spot; place where one is currently living
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
troublesome; bothersome; tiresome; annoying
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
to bring (somebody into a place); to lead into
beautiful; lovely; heartwarming; beautiful
to melt (and become soft or liquid); to be enchanted (by); to be charmed; to be bewitched
(in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; around; about; for instance; say
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings
even though things may appear this way
love affair; love relationship
to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)
having no idea; having no clue
to say something additional; to add (to what was said before)
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away