descent; fall; drop; decline; downturn; subsidence
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
trouble; harmful effect; evil influence; implication; involvement
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
to stay in one's heart; to be enduringly memorable; to be unforgettable
to stoop; to bend (e.g. one's knees)
carnivore; carnivorous animal
loading; charging; filling
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
to cause casualties; to result in deaths
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
order; command; directions; instructions
(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
seductive smile; erotic humor
(navigable) canal; waterway
to one's heart's content; following one's heart's desires
(sound of a) gunshot; (gun) report
to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
pale; pallid; bluish-white
ideal situation; ideal world; perfect world; utopia
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
immediately; instantly; with nary a pause; without a moment's delay
tomfoolery; monkey business
Chinese matrimony vine (Lycium chinense); Chinese wolfberry; goji
(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"
dying from blood loss; bleeding to death; hemorrhaging to death
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
companions; friends; comrades; mates; partners
to come from; to have roots in
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
to throw on the fire; to burn