selection; choice; option
mistake; error; accident; mishap; improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
to get flustered; to get flurried; to get agitated; to become impatient; to hurry
thoroughly; completely; severely; harshly; (arch.) scattered; (arch.) disconnected
how long; how much; to what extent
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
close; intimate; on good terms
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
good wife and wise mother
feeling; sense; impression
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
one by one; one after another; successively
foolish; idiotic; stupid; ridiculous; absurd
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
emission; emanation; letting out (feelings); venting; divergence (of light); divergence
sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly
interference; intervention; meddling
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
cerebral infarction; (ischemic) stroke
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
all; completely; totally; entirely; thoroughly
the situation reverses itself; the table is turned; the shoe is on the other foot
nursing; care; caregiving; caring