recent state; present state; present condition; current status; current circumstances
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard
to grip; to grasp; to squeeze
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
certain; unmistaken; evident; obvious; beyond doubt
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
that; the matter in question
style; way; shape; form; appearance; state
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
to have no way of knowing; to be completely ignorant of
to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to
and yet; though; when; in spite of
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
dumbfounded; in mute amazement
same; similar; (just) like; equal
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
to collapse into; to flop onto
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to rise; to raise up; to straighten up; to sit up; to stand up