home area; home town; local
outward appearance; exterior appearance; outward show; looks
to etch (name, etc.); to carve (design)
tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing
rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick; uncool; unstylish
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale
skinny person; scrawny person; scarecrow; bag of bones
particular; special; exceptional; particularly; especially; exceptionally
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
within the country; inside the county; domestic; home; internal
to be used to eating; to become used to eating; to be accustomed to eating; to acquire a taste for
(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; eccentricity; person with unusual tastes; eccentric; oddball
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
natural growth; wild growth
unceasing; never-ending; endless
one's own child; one's own children
(speaking) bluntly; frankly; straightforwardly; openly; directly; unhesitantingly
in name only; titular; nominal
to farm; to cultivate a field
to have the privilege of doing
washing; laundry; relaxation; rejuvenation; melting away (of worries, fatigue, etc.)
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete
to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
to bring in; to take in; to approach (someone) with (a proposal, offer, problem, etc.); to bring; to bring (to another stage); to take (e.g. to court, to extra time, to a play-off)
to be mistaken; to be incorrect; to make a mistake (in); to do incorrectly; to mistake (one thing with another); to confuse
disliking a certain food without having tried it; disliking something without having tried it; being prejudiced against; having an instinctive aversion to
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
by hook or by crook; by all possible means
to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off
supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
treatment; conduct (towards another); behavior; stage performance; movements (of an actor); acting gestures
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
literally; to the letter; literal
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
cool; calm; composed; all right; fine; OK