to work hard; to try hard; to strive; to endeavour; to endeavor; to devote oneself to
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
spatula; (fabric) tracing spatula; (pottery) pallet; (artificially cultured) Japanese crucian carp
piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood
nevertheless; at any rate; even so; all things considered; be that as it may
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
rebellious phase; rebellious age
fruit of a tree; nut; berry
spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)
fruit; nut; berry; fruits; profit
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; indulgent
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
completion; perfection; accomplishment
within the village; all over the village; throughout the village
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
magnanimous in one's attitude of mind; grand in one's idea or mind-set
unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away
trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype
one large animal (horses, cattle, etc.); head (of cattle)
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less
one day; (on) a certain day
four times; four-colour process printing; CMYK printing
beyond this point; ahead; from now on; after this; in the future
to push up; to thrust up; to put pressure on (one's superiors); to pressure; to well up (of an emotion); to surge up
calculation; computation; reckoning; consideration; calculation; estimation
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
half and half; fifty-fifty
to throw into; to toss into; to throw-in; to play a throw-in
to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to