teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
from one's home; while sitting at home; without leaving one's house; without moving from one's chair; without taking a step outside
appointing someone to a position of trust; entrusting someone with an important position; making much of
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives
how far; to what extent; up to what point
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
honorific title; honorific term of address
to astonish; to astound; to stupefy; to flabbergast; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
formidable enemy; strong enemy; tough enemy
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to lend an ear to; to listen to
leaving or staying; (one's) course of action; (one's) position; (one's) attitude
how; in what way; by what means
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
guess; speculation; supposition
self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)
uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
almost; nearly; hardly; barely; large majority; large proportion
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
ominous; sinister; (arch.) annoying; (arch.) appearing to be true; (arch.) plausible
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
stand-offish; distant; not frank; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)
a long, long time ago; very long ago
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy
that's got nothing to do with me; that's none of my business; that doesn't involve me
to do; to commit; to carry out; to bring about
it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...; it's obvious that ...
making doubly sure; points scored for good measure; insurance run (in baseball)
spell (that restricts one's movements); binding spell
maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling
you could say that; that might be so
so; like this; in this way; this much; to this extent