to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home
to stick (to); to cling (to); to stay (e.g. in the office)
to repaint; to paint again; to break (a record); to rewrite; to remake
fighting spirit; (will to) fight
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
reverse; inversion; upside down; unreasonable; absurd; wrong
provocation; stirring up; arousal; excitement; stimulation
feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
reception room; parlor; parlour
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
regular customer; general audience; general public
division; section; compartment; block; plot; lot
confusing people; magic; ghost, monster, etc., the true identity of which is unknown
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
(tree) trunk; (arrow) shaft; (tool) handle; backbone; base
to gather; to collect; to assemble
chaos; confusion; disorder; chaotic; confused; uncertain
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am
(being) out of range (e.g. mobile network, radar, missiles); (being) out of contention; (being) beyond influence
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
in the meanwhile; during the time
dealing with; coping with
after that; afterwards; thereafter
to hang up; to end a telephone conversation
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms
to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)