air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
casting; cast-metal object
smuggling; contraband trade
grazing; skimming; almost touching; barely; just; narrowly
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
two times; twice; two degrees
first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag
and; thereupon; because of that
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
to be attached; to be connected with; to remain imprinted; to scar; to bear (fruit, interest, etc.); to be acquired (of a habit, ability, etc.); to increase (of strength, etc.)
arrest; apprehension; capture
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
even if; even though; however; no matter how
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
second marriage; remarriage
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
never mind!; don't worry about it
it's not like; it isn't as if
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to pass (e.g. car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to get ahead of
to break through; to penetrate; to pierce
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
to be able to tell apart; to distinguish; to recognize
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)