solitude; loneliness; isolation
thick (of a liquid); muddy; gooey
oar; all; (pulling an) all-nighter; staying up all night long
established practice; custom
and; thereupon; because of that
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
to distinguish oneself; to stand out
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
risk aversion; hedging; danger avoidance
modern person; people of today
person requiring special attention; person to be wary of; person under (police) surveillance; dangerous person
to degenerate; to lapse into
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished; tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked
stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump
indulging in every possible luxury
to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
I can say now (what I couldn't before); now (that things have changed) I don't mind telling you; I couldn't tell you until now; I couldn't have told you this back then
to go with the flow; to go with the times
limited; restricted; constrained
no objection; nothing to criticize; nothing to criticise
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
heavenly beings shown flying around the main image in a temple; Feitian (2008 Chinese space suit)
(gymnastical) giant swing; all-out effort; frenzied activity
careless; sloppy; faulty; using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
lotus flower; Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus); china spoon; lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone
zero degrees (Celsius); freezing point; zero (on a scale)
moonless sky (poetic usage)