elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)
simple; simplified; easy; plain
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry
military forces; army; troops; number of soldiers
to (finally) arrive at; to reach (at last); to (manage to) get to; to find one's way to
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
oh!; dear me; my goodness; well well; I say
regrettable; unfortunate; disappointing; vexing
unpleasant; revolting; feeling sick; feeling unwell; uncomfortable; annoying
since; for the past ... (e.g. ten years); this person; this gentleman
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
a long time (since the last time); first in a long time; it's been a long time; long time no see
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
to go; to come; to lose; to be defeated; to be stumped (by); to be at a loss; to visit (a shrine, grave, etc.)
at once; immediately; right now
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
to put (into); to put away (in); to include (in an anthology, catalogue, etc.); to contain; to achieve (results, success, etc.); to obtain; to accept (a gift or money)
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
although I say; although one might say; although called
fight; dispute; feud; competition; contest; rivalry
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
rule by military force; military rule; (way of the) conqueror; path of supremacy
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
calculation; computation; reckoning; consideration; calculation; estimation
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time