to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
keep up your strength; chin up!
to thrust down; to push off
persecution complex; paranoia
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
to recall; to remember; to recollect
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person
kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
victim; injured party; sufferer
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement