above-ground floor; ground floor
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
... years since construction; ... years old (of a building); built in ...
chic; smart; understanding; considerate; familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
phase space; topological space
construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation
matter (in Aristotelian philosophy)
head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent
cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
to go crazy (esp. of a situation or thing); to get out of hand; to end up in an extreme state
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance
free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action
by today; before the day is over
how much; how many; however
meandering; snaking; zigzagging
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
no!; no no!; no, not at all
to be out of patience; to be unable to put up with something anymore
one flower; single flower; success; prosperity
being reluctant to give out (pay, provide, etc.); giving out grudgingly
for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)
new type; new style; new model; new strain (e.g. infectious disease)
prototype; model; pattern; archetypal
time to pay the piper; (lit.) time to pay the land tax (in kind)
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
civilian clothes; plain clothes; mufti; plainclothes police officer
to re-enter; to rejoin; to re-enrol
to rearrange (classes); to recompose; to reset; to recombine (genes)
amount of experience; experience level; experience point; exp; XP
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold