to be consistent; to be coherent
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings
reputation; respectability
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
slight; thin; on the weak side
item; something that one "just has to have"
previous conviction; criminal record; previous offense; previous offence
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down; withdrawal (e.g. of candidacy); pulling out (e.g. of a race)
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
basket; basketball; basket cloth
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
to scream; to whine; to grumble; to complain
messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things
panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind
to fall in love at first sight; (arch.) to see for the first time; (arch.) to meet for the first time; (arch.) to have sexual relations for the first time
just because; even if; even though
to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself
to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
imprudence; indiscretion; thoughtlessness
announcement; presentation; demonstration; displaying; showing; introducing
anyone can see that; it's obvious that
to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
contradiction; inconsistency
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
superior; boss; them (as opposed to "us"); person above; upstairs neighbour (neighbor)
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
careless; sloppy; faulty; using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations