management; administration; cutting up and serving food; cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)
pistachio (Pistacia vera)
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
approval; agreement; support; favour; favor
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
to abandon; to give up on; to desert
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
murder; killing; murderer
materials; data; document
to thrust down; to push off
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
private tutor; coach; governess
senior high school; high school
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
since then; from that time; ever since
sentence; verdict; pronouncement
striking (at something) and missing; swing and a miss; vain attempt
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
to be crushed; to be smashed; to become useless; to cease functioning; to go bankrupt; to go out of business
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
to pull apart; to separate; to have a lead over; to pull ahead of; to outdistance
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
making off with (something); absconding; stolen; absconded (with)
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)
to capture; to seize; to plunder
strongish; somewhat strong
to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
ice; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)