burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
whispering; murmuring; subdued
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
shelter; cover; screen; shield; obstruction; defilade
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
variegated; varicoloured; varicolored; multi-coloured; multi-colored; diverse
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)
binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term
sharpshooting; shooting; sniping; setting a goal and carrying it out
random pounding (e.g. on a drum)
invalid; void; ineffective; unavailable
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
material; substance; matter
aquatic (life); living in the water
immortality; eternal life; undeath; undead
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
to follow; to conform; to apply to
deep inside; innermost place
dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; end; end of the road; end point
running continuously; firing in rapid succession
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
as far as the eye can see
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
complete recovery of health
to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
massacre; mass slaughter; genocide; holocaust