to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role
vicious circle; vicious cycle
postponement; deferment; extension (of time)
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
featureless (face); expressionless; flat; flat (terrain); smooth
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.); image (on a screen); picture; surface of a painting (picture, drawing, etc.)
(computer) monitor; consumer who comments on products, television programs, etc. (programmes); program or utility that monitors a program or activity
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
to be seen from the point of view of an onlooker
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
to be mentally fatigued; to tired to the bone
comics or novels about male homosexuality, targeted at young women
forcibly; against one's will
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
(having) same family and personal name
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
to move; to shift; to inspire; to rouse; to change; to alter; to operate
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
author; writer; novelist; artist
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
bitter tears; (lit.) tears of blood
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
popular; folksy; plebeian; ordinary; unpretentious
to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
upper side (go, chess, othello board)
you're lying; yeah, right; liar; fibber
some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
obedience; submission; resignation
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge