hint; suggestion; clue; suggestion
to be utterly amazed; to be stunned; to be disgusted
to pretend; to act (as if)
serious; earnest; sober; honest; sincere
unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
frail; flimsy; insubstantial; insignificant; lacking gravitas
ripple (on water); wavelet
to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts
foundation; base; basis; from the beginning; from the outset; by nature
to be generally accepted; to be acknowledged by oneself and others
novel; story; (work of) fiction
significant; full of meaning; pregnant (with meaning); suggestive
passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to underestimate; to make light of
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen
leading person; foremost figure
practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis
to correct oneself; to restate
pain; ache; soreness; damage; injury; wear
society; the world; the times
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
infancy; childish; infantile; immature
shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly
soggy; soaked; crushed (out of shape); crumpled; messy; untidy
to sob convulsively; to heave with sobs
defective article; damaged goods; deflowered girl; unmarried woman who has lost her virginity
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
who cares?; I don't give a damn; what does it matter?
bond (between people); (emotional) ties; bonds; tether; fetters
to be flowing (of blood); to be alive; to be humane; to show signs of humanity
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; strictness; cruelty