strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)
to ward off; to brush away; to fling off; to drive away
rudeness; impoliteness; discourtesy; insolence
to say; to tell; to state; to do
feeling of envy; jealous feeling
being startled; getting a shock
our country; our land; one's own country
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial
even though; despite; when
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
long; drawn-out; very long
to stare at each other; to lock eyes with
to create (an atmosphere, feeling, etc.); to produce; to engender
sorrowful (e.g. person, scene, etc.); melancholic
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
rather; better; instead; if anything
to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding
object of romantic interest
to exceed; to be even more (so); to exaggerate
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
incident; affair; happening; event
sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
neutrality (incl. chemical, electrical, etc.); indifference; sexlessness; androgyny; neuter gender
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
right in the center (centre)
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)