to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive
element; component; factor; element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
everything; anything; nothing
boisterously; roughly; briskly
violence; assault; rough (handling, language, etc.); reckless; rape; sexual assault
to tear off; to pluck; to scratch off
feeling of a house or a room
feeling in the hands (when striking, poking, etc.); (feeling of) resistance; response (to one's efforts); reaction; (having an) effect (on)
censure; denunciation; (verbal) attack; blaming
to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with someone)
to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of
burly; strong; indomitable; indefatigable; robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc.); strong
to stick into and move around; to dig around in; to pick (i.e. one's teeth)
previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day
brush (for painting, basting, etc.)
to stick (to); to cling (to); to adhere (to); to stay (in a place); to stick close (to someone); to follow (someone) around
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded
rage; fury; exasperation; indignation
pit of one's stomach; bottom of one's heart; one's true feelings; one's innermost thoughts
to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil
first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address; first tone (in Chinese); level tone
to ask a question; to ask questions
commuting to school; school commute
to leave home; to leave one's parental roof; to leave the nest; to go out on one's own
full-time housewife; stay-at-home homemaker
positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
almost every day; almost daily
abundant; plentiful; rich; wealthy; open (mind); relaxed
to feel like; to feel inclined to do
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
lead nowhere; get one nowhere; no use; fruitless; there's no point (in doing)
to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of