once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
a handful (of); grasping (with one hand); gripping; grabbing
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
trouble; bother; annoyance
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
first-class goods; A-grade product
absolute best; very finest; top-class; first-rate; elite
degree of difficulty; difficulty level
to jump up; to spring up; to jump (market, price, etc.); to rise sharply; to act rashly; to jump the gun
fidelity; honour; honor; chastity (of a woman); faithfulness (e.g. to one's husband)
thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time
acquisition; obtaining; procurement; getting (hold of)
halfway up (down) a mountain; mountainside
to ascend; to go up; to climb
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
valley (with a river running through it); gorge; ravine; canyon
mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain
to freeze; to become frozen; to freeze over
to stick (to); to cling (to); to adhere (to); to stay (in a place); to stick close (to someone); to follow (someone) around
valley; ravine; gorge; canyon
pitch-dark; pitch-black; completely dark; very bleak (future); utterly hopeless
to infer; to figure out; to get an idea of; to tell; to imagine; to guess
calm; composed; leisurely
to fly about; to jump about; to bustle about
several hundred; hundreds (of)
brown; light brown; tawny
pitch-black; jet-black; strongly tanned; deeply sunburnt; sooty; black with dirt
to push (something) out; to jut out (can have a negative nuance); to protrude; to rise out the trap door (on stage)
dragon (as depicted in Western myths)
to sprawl; to lie sprawled; to stretch oneself out; to lie relaxed on one's side
subjugation (using military force); suppression; subduing
greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
to show understanding; to appreciate; to be positive about
to squint (one eye); to narrow
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
my husband; one's family; family member
skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious