to make sense; to be meaningful
research material; experimental material
to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to; to attend
to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of
temporary transfer (of an employee); secondment; relocation; proceeding to; leaving for
to make contact (with); to get in touch; to enter into relations; to come to an understanding
same time; simultaneous; concurrent; synchronous
going side-by-side; going abreast; running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with
strong interaction; strong force
official business; public business
greed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person
to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain
girl's feeling; maiden's mind
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
to rekindle one's love; to fall in love again (with a person one has previously been in love with)
problematic statement; controversial remark
build; physique; frame; constitution
(good) time to quit; (right) time to withdraw; time to pull out; time to retire; time to leave
at a loss for words; stumped for words
hopeless; good-for-nothing; incorrigible; foolish; preposterous; absurd
surrender; capitulation; submission; yield
to clasp together (esp. hands); to entwine (e.g. fingers)
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
hundredfold; hundred times as much; much more (than previously)
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
unable to contain oneself; itching to do something; cannot sit still
to hang (something) on the wall
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over (something); pondering
(lit.) to carry a bomb; to have a bomb about to go off; to have an imminent problem; to be in danger of relapse
practical; matter-of-fact; realistic; utilitarian; pragmatic
separate; scattered; apart
soon; momentarily; before long; any time now
innocence; being not guilty
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
retort (vessel used for distillation); retort (airtight vessel used to heat and sterilize canned or retort-pouch food)
at (a time or place); in; in (a situation, matter, etc.); on (a point); on the part of; under the authority of
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation