labor; labour; manpower; working force
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
manufacturing method; recipe; formula
imprisonment; captive; prisoner
materials; data; document
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
to look down on; to make light of
offstage; backstage; behind the scenes
under control (e.g. of territory)
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
conclusion; execution (of a contract); entering (into treaty); fastening (as in a joint)
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
imprisonment; incarceration
incineration; destroy by fire
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
clue; lead; key; handhold; hold
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
first meeting; first interview with
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
to be upset; to lose one's composure; to lose self-control; to put in disorder; to mess up; to disturb
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
excessive; unmerited; generous; past participle
(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)
shy; diffident; retiring; reserved
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
to say; to be called; to do
getting deeply involved; going deeply into; going too far (into something)
going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state
groundless fear; thinking too much; making too much of
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
cheerful; merry; sunny; bright (sky, day, etc.); fine; clear
marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)