witnessing; observing; sighting
accident; emergency; calamity
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
to stop walking; to pause
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
to have a narrow escape from death
to get on a horse; to mount a horse
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
being in abstraction; being dazed; being absentminded; stargazing
to run into (room, building, etc.); to go for long training runs
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
horsemanship; equestrian art; (art of) riding
indispensable; essential; requisite; required; compulsory; necessary
to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
on the occasion of; at the time of
bustling; shuffling; squirming; creepy crawly
to gather; to collect; to assemble
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
adopted daughter; foster daughter
(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount
fall; tumble; spill; degradation; comedown; demotion
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
presumption; assumption; estimation
the deceased; deaths; persons killed
broken; intermittent; disconnected
tone of voice; mimicry; imitative voice
earth (color, colour); ashen; deathly pale
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
furious facial expression
(it was) no bother at all; not at all; it was nothing
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
love affair; sensual pleasures
apathetic; lackadaisical; spiritless; physically weak; feeble; effeminate
carpenter's square; instigation; suggestion