Dictionary

to avoid (an unpleasant fate)

compact; terse; tight (schedule)

drinking water; potable water

blurred (landscape etc); low (spirits); in a slump (economy)

indefinite; indeterminate; (botany) adventitious

public cemetery

to ponder; to consider

can see; can tell

steady; earnest; staid

palace; hall; temple buildings

one's later years

foe; one's personal enemy

coastal area; littoral or riparian

end of the year

confluence; to converge; to join

material evidence

to be situated; to be located (of a building)

narrow

a moment; an instant; in a flash

to come pouring in; influx

paralyzed

to occupy by force; to seize; to dominate

to call for help

to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms; to place on a par with; (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y)

especially

prologue

to plagiarize; to copy; to attack the flank or rear of an enemy

common sense; conventional reasoning and morals

bubble; blister (in metal); (of beverages) sparkling

sauna (loanword); (loanword) sauna

steam; heat

tactful; euphemistic; (of voice etc) suave

to guard against theft; anti-theft

to not understand; to be puzzled by; indissoluble

valve (mechanical)

opportunity; turning point; juncture

not to let sb down; to treat sb fairly; be worthy of

obedient; to comply; to submit

don't think (that); don't imagine (that)

chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel or dig

neck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck; problem that impedes progress

to calculate the running total; cumulative; total

to halt; to stop; to go no farther

bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc); berth; bunk

to collect; to recruit

to have the desired effect; to produce the intended effect; to achieve the desired result

no time to deal with it (idiom); caught unprepared

to broaden

to give up; to abandon (a goal etc); to let sth go

handkerchief; CL:方[fang1]