method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
muscular; lean (of a company's operations, etc.)
recoil; hesitation; flinching; shrinking back
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
voice; speech; sound of a voice; sound (e.g. of a TV)
do, re, mi, fa, sol (soh), la, si (ti), do (solfa syllables)
to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
noisily (esp. the noise of heavy feet)
noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
at first; in the beginning; originally
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee
skip (bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot); skipping (over); skip (captain of a curling team); skipper
still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet
corpulence; fatness; obesity
figure; body shape; build; somatotype; biotype; habitus
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
grizzled; (hair) streaked with grey (gray)
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
dropping out; falling behind; omission; being left out; falling off; coming off
no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable
(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)
disqualification; elimination; incapacity; being unfit for one's role; being a failure
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
to complain; to make a complaint
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)