human intellect; knowledge
sense of equilibrium; sense of balance
to fall flat; to collapse in a heap
to shave off; to scrape off
now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game
whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches
to fall into someone's hands; to place oneself in someone's power
former; ex-; earlier times; the past; formerly; previously
before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently
chain; chaining; connection; (genetic) linkage
endurance; perseverance; patience
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
a particular; a certain; that kind of; such a
firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun; having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
transition (esp. in scientific contexts)
armrest (of a chair); elbow rest
otherwise; or else; if not
cast; mold; mould; forming; shaping; fashioning
heat; hot air; enthusiasm; excitement; fever
binoculars; field glasses
refrigerator; cold; cool; cold sake
the positive and the negative
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
creaking; squeaking; packing in tightly; cramming; hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
boundary; (nuclear) criticality; critical (mass, pressure, temperature, state, point, etc.)
standby; preparation; arrangement
kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest)
(arch.) pit; (arch.) hole; kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north)
The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully
dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west)