irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products
difficult to ...; hard to ...
slowly; quietly; steadily; soon; momentarily; before long
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
to pity; to feel sympathy for; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to commiserate with; to have mercy on
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say
without eating or drinking
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
throughout; all through; right through
ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over
human intellect; knowledge
incident; affair; happening; event
abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
physical condition; state of health
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
to recall; to remember; to recollect
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
feeling of tragic heroism; feeling of grim resolve; sense of determination
appearing and disappearing; slipping in and out of view
shock therapy; shock treatment
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets
to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap
Satan; the Devil; the Prince of Darkness; king of the demons who try to prevent people from doing good
being put to shame; being outshone; being eclipsed; feeling embarrassed
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely