friendly; affable; amiable; sociable; loving company; (animals) taking kindly to men
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
pretty; charming; lovely; adorable
to have one's nose mutilated; to have one's nose cut off
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
(practical) application; putting to practical use; applied
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
degree of difficulty; difficulty level
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify
massing (of troops); gathering
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
both people; two people; two directions; both directions
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
to summon; to get used to call
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
every year; yearly; annually
change; transition; vicissitudes
to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above
memory; ability to remember
to be astonished; to be amazed; to be astounded; to be deeply impressed
to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off
person with whom to speak; someone to talk to; companion; advisor; adviser
harmless and inoffensive; bland; tepid
for a while; for some time; for a period
cheerful; buoyant; lighthearted
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
main question; real issue at hand
show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation
greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short
intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out