to be able to eat; to be able to swallow
difficult to ...; hard to ...
vivid; bright; brilliant; skillful; skilful; adept
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
silence (not speaking); muteness
thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal; thank you (for displaying lovey-dovey behaviour)
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
unable to leave the work at hand; right in the middle of something; tied up; busy
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
intimate friend; close friend; bosom buddy; chum
playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together
to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
resting one's chin in one's hands; brace (in construction); angle brace
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
how; in what way; circumstances
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
laziness; shirking; impudent; brazenly dishonest
to reseat oneself; to correct one's posture
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
main question; real issue at hand
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days