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| know Had [would] as lief ...as impeach sb. by listing crimes | Bei'erxingyichi | Zhong'er To resemble few |
| Erchengbubazhe | Mar but also epigenesis | Erchuzhi with ease |
| Non- visibly | to act in a diametrically opposite way | lip-service |
| feed on illusions | be a fool to | be forced to keep one's resentment to oneself |
| can be looked at but not touched | stay at a respectful distance from sb. | art for art's sake |
| simple and natural | not do sth because one considers it to be too much trouble | showing or giving great joy and serenity |
| snug | clear and precise | lonely and unhappy |
| fresh and clean, as if new | breeze | poor and shabby |
| sylphlike | cheap and tawdry | specific |
| as one grows older | without hesitation | next-best |
| smart and tidy | violent and shocking | follow from sth |
| cheerful and sociable | join together in a larger organization for mutual benefit （ | simple and natural |
| very detailed and complicated | miserable and without friends | gaudy |
| done smoothly and efficiently, apparently without effort | wizened | ageing |
| curvilinear | insomuch | daredevil |
| dark | cubby | cracker |
| aleatory | intermarry | compilation |
| confluence | confront | conglomerate |
| classical | chunk | claro |
| fluted | foghorn | fordable |
| ignescent | foreshorten | idyllic |
| hudibrastic | granular | grapevine |
| heteronymously | brassy | bouffant |
| gruelling | gross | gimcrackery |
| bolt | galvanic | spike |
| sheet | bolus | distrain |
| doddle | dreamy | elk |
| deliberate | delphi | dilatant |
| byronic | encore | flakily |
| flaky | bulbous | immolate |
| fall by the wayside | andante ma non troppo | treacherous ice |
| toss one's glass | from the teeth forwards [outwards] | His [Her] tongue failed him [her]. |
| tail to the tide | throb from the cut | from the sublime to the ridiculous |
| stupefied with drink | struggle for a living | starve out |
| squeal with sth. | (it is)too much of a good thing | swot for |
| sweat off | swear out | weep for misfortune |
| well out of sth. | scrabble for a living | rub off on [onto] |
| rough and round | rattle around in | rather than(otherwise) |
| pivot on | take pity on | lose sleep about [over] sth. |
| sing on the wrong side of one's mouth | scud before the wind | spare |
| sonsy | snubby | snowdrift |
| slime | cell | slender |
| squeal | squeal | spud |
| spontaneous | skin | shrive |
| ritual | ravening | raffish |
| roll | shaggy | rugged |
| rugged | royalist | tail |
| suspensible | superannuate | throaty |
| tediously | tawdry | tawdry |
| strapping | stoned | superannuate |
| strut | starve | nod |
| myeloid | muggy | monosyllabic |
| monolithic | migrate | meteoric |
| mangy | novelty | outgrow |
| mane | mandarin | maceration |
| judiciously | jabber | lyric |
| luxurious | luscious | lurid |
| lumpy | longwinded | lengthy |
| lean | latently | languish |
| lambent | invalid | poroplastic |
| quitter | pyroligneous | pestilential |
| outride | parang | cross the floor |
| to flinch at pain | flinch from danger | to glow with shame |
| to glory in one's strength | stroke the fur the wrong way | come easy to |
| Thatdepends. | for that matter (=for the matter of that) | Call no man happy before his death. (=Call no man happy till he dies.) |
| be macerated with cares | put one's head into a hornet's nest | work like a nailer |
| be inebriated by success | impair by use | |