to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
to see; to look; to watch; to try to
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
company president; manager; director
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to rank (as); to occupy (a position); to be located (in); to be situated
to subsist; to keep on living
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
tangent point; point of contact; contact (electrical, etc.); point of agreement; common ground
husband and wife; married couple
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
greeting; a fine thing to say
to have the privilege of doing
degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
in that way; like that; that way
once in a lifetime; once in one's life
that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
two persons; two people; pair; couple
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
history of; experience of
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
government office; public office
one way or the other; either way
originally; by nature; from the start
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
Taiwanese (language); Taiwanese Hokkien
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
please; somehow or other; one way or another
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
time; years; days; the Moon and the Sun