aspiration; volunteering; desire; application
handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features); decent; proper; correct
great success; huge success
going on and on (about inconsequential things); talking nonsense; idling away the time; dawdling
tediously; persistently; lazily; idly; (boiling) to a pulp; to a mash
mumbling; muttering; complaining (continuously) about something
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
adoration; admiration; devotion
devoting oneself to; concentrating on; being an ardent admirer of; (arch.) tipping over and collapsing
to wrinkle up (e.g. one's eyebrows, nose, etc.); to furrow; to crimple
to cheat (in a romantic relationship); to play it both ways; to sit on the fence; to two-time
to have a pulse; to be alive; to have a chance; to be not altogether hopeless
an instant; a split second; no time at all; (lit.) time of an "ah!"
to connect; to correlate; to associate; to relate; to link
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
star (usu. excluding the Sun); planet (usu. excluding Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); asterisk; star (actor, player, etc.); dot; spot
previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day
(one's) sleeping hours; hours of sleep
urge to defecate (or urinate); call of nature
lifting of fighting spirit
simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved
to be particular about one's food; to have a discriminating palate
food expenses; money for food; charge for board
modest; reserved; quiet; frugal; simple; plain
keeping oneself awake; fighting off drowsiness; method for keeping oneself awake
to disentangle; to untangle; to break up into pieces; to pick apart; to relieve; to ease
to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked
to twist; to wrench; to twist (a body part); to bend; to strangle (to death); to wring (an animal's neck); to defeat easily
toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.
fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool
to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother
flexibility; pliability; softness; elasticity
spreading the legs (wide apart); opening the legs
following (e.g. someone's opinion); being servile to; adherence; compliance; emulation; mimicking
sales message; sales copy
overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora; abundance (esp. of something undesirable)
deceptive advertising; misleading advertisement (presenting one's product as being better or cheaper than it really is)
illegal channel; back channel; black market
using all one's strength; using all one's might
soon; before long; shortly thereafter
fire command vehicle; fire chief car