shoulders; body; honour; honor; prestige
to press against each other; to huddle together
hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
insecticide; insect repellent
spray; sprayer; atomizer; sprinkles (confectionery); hundreds and thousands
to sprinkle over (e.g. salt, pepper, etc. on food)
minuteness; one millionth
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
notice; attention; observation
main street; avenue; boulevard
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
challenging; defiant; provocative; aggressive
skilled; skillful; skilful; competent; capable; good
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
highly skilled; skillful; very capable; particularly able person; master-hand; person of ability
not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling
activity (esp. energetic or successful); great efforts; active participation; walking about with great vigor
to make a name for oneself; to achieve success
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
repetitious; long-winded; heavy (taste); (overly) rich; gaudy (colour, design, etc.); loud
winner; victor; conqueror
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
inevitable; unavoidable; certain; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to look at each other; to exchange looks; to correspond (to); to be proportionate (to); to be in keeping with
return; restoring; return (in tennis, etc.); return (key); return; profit
rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
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)
means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
main purpose; primary objective
you could say; you might say; verging on the
brimming with health (vigor, vigour); full of vitality; full of health