I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
living room (Western style); sitting room
now that; since; so long as; because
phantom; vision; illusion
state; state of affairs; appearance; look; sign; indication
breakdown; failure; damage; hurt; objection; protest
emergency staircase; emergency stairs
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
at first; in the beginning; originally
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to feign ignorance; to pretend one doesn't know
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
serious; severe; grave; acute
to be surprised; to be amazed; to be frightened; surprise (e.g. surprise party)
expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
to cease; to stop; to be over
consideration; thoughtfulness; sympathy; compassion; feeling; kindness
willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than