irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
sixteenth day of the month; sixteen days
which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
myself; yourself; I; me; you
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
to concern; to be related
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
plural; multiple; several
the place one comes from; one's birthplace; one's hometown
work experience; work history
academic background; academic credentials; academic record
family structure; family composition; family makeup
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
fondness for women; woman admirer; lustful man; being attractive to women; being a lady-killer
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
marriage fraud; fake marriage
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
man; male; masculine gender
such ... as; or some such
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
to say; to tell; to state; to do
difficult to ...; hard to ...