to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
to stare in wonder; to be amazed
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
to come into being; to be born
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon); trace
mouth; lips; shape of the mouth; near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
process; course; mechanism
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
charcoal; charred remains
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
to be better (than); to be superior; to surpass; to excel; to be excellent
entrance (on the stage); appearance (in a book, film, etc.); appearance (on the scene); arrival (on the market); emergence
every year; yearly; annually
television program; TV program
feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report
to pick up; to adopt (a proposal); to take up (a topic); to take issue with; to make a problem of; to report (news); to cover
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is
chance; opportunity; occasion
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
to look into; to peep into; to peer into
to fan; to incite; to instigate
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
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)
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
(arch.) like that; (arch.) as such; yeah; uh-huh
strong and weak points; likes and dislikes; strengths and weaknesses
that is to say; so that means
club activities; extracurricular activities
lodging together; training camp; boarding house
how; in what way; by what means
jello; jelly; gelatin dessert; gel; jelly
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!