to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
narrowness; being cramped; being almost full
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
petrifaction; petrification; mineralization; mineralisation; lithification; fossilization
gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)
yuan (monetary unit of China)
to establish an emotional bond with; to reach out to; to relate to
despite; in spite of; not worrying about; without fear of
strategy meeting; council of war
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
to lecture; to read aloud; to devise (e.g. a strategy); to work out (e.g. a tactic); to confer; to hold conference (with)
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period
association; union; guild; labor union; labour union; trade union
input; (data) entry; typing
match (contest); matching (with); going well (with)
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture
possibility of participation; participation possibility
not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard
processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal
to erase all trace of something
to look down on; to make light of
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
victory or defeat; victory and defeat
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
particle; atom; little piece; not at all; not the slightest
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
directly opposite; right in front
trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation
elder sister; effeminate man
to say; to speak; to tell; to be called
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply