- cold; to shiver with cold; to tremble with fear; afraid; apprehensive; strict; stern; severe; austere; awe-inspiring; imposing; majestic
- to close a door; to lock a door; (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- conclusion; verdict; CL:個|个[ge4]; to conclude; to reach a verdict
- quiet; making little or no noise; surreptitious; stealthy; anxious; worried; Taiwan pr. [qiao3qiao3]
- to replay; to rerun; (agriculture) to reseed; to oversow
- to suspend; time-out (e.g. in sports); stoppage; pause (media player)
- gap in coverage; gap in protection or defenses; neglected or overlooked area; dead end
- to look as if; to seem
- unremarkable; nothing out of the ordinary
- bookshelf; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to confirm; to corroborate; to verify; proof; evidence
- all personnel; the whole staff
- bookcase
- to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
- can see; can tell
- to spread over an area
- (attributive) paper; hard-copy; printed; paper quality
- page of a book
- to move; to shift; to exchange; to buy and sell; peddling
- lit. spider's thread and horse track; tiny hints (of a secret); traces; clue
- common; ordinary; general; average
- for now; for the time being; temporarily
- to suppose; to presume; to assume; supposing that ...; if; hypothesis; conjecture
- annoyed; riled; vexed
- (idiom) wordless; silent; taciturn; without speaking
- other half; (fig.) spouse; one's better half
- to convene; to call together
- all parties (in a dispute etc); all sides; all directions
- cream; elite; essence; quintessence
- commando; special forces soldier
- probably; perhaps; could it be that...?
- a spy; a crafty person
- on the road; on the way; en route
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- to set oneself against; to oppose; to make a pair
- to determine the nature (of sth); to determine the chemical composition (of a substance); qualitative
- to muster large forces; to get a great number of people involved (in carrying out some task)
- sth one wishes to conceal; the cat (as in "let the cat out of the bag")
- to signify; to mean; to imply
- elaborate
- for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized
- visible light; light in optical spectrum