circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
conviction; belief; confidence
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
raincoat; mackintosh; macintosh; trench coat
standard; criterion; norm; benchmark; measure; gauge
manufacturing; processing; treatment; machining
cloth; fabric; material; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly
observation; survey; watching
oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)
inside; interior; inner part
to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to dunk
to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with
(free) sample; promotional gift
(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)
to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on; to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on
to have sparkling eyes; to have shining eyes; to have a gleam in one's eyes
to bring (something); to take along; to fetch; to get
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
spool (of thread); reel; bobbin; tuning peg
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
material; material properties; quality of material; quality of wood; quality of lumber
process; operation; stage of a process; progress of work
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
speciality; specialty; special subject of study; sole interest; single focus; concentrating exclusively on
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.)
healthy; robust; strong; solid; durable
link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging
waders (waterproof pants often fitted with boots, used mostly by fishermen)
-like; pseudo-; imitation; counterfeit; comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts); (arch.) criticism
watering hole; watering place
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity