trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)
to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)
for example; for instance; e.g.
powerful person; influential person
patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha); patron; master
paying to get someone (esp. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) out of bondage
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
to lie down; to throw oneself down
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
to be needed; to be wanted
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
to lay aside; to set aside
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes
that's the way it is; such is life
to carry around; to carry on one's person
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance
to be silent; to say nothing
to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago