Khao Phansa, the start of the Buddhist Rains Retreat

approach; come near

to encode

to move towards; enter

to have an audience with royalty; be receive in audience; appear before royalty [abbreviation for เมื่อชาวบ้านทราบว่า จะมีโอกาสได้เข้าเฝ้าฯ เพื่อถวายความจงรักภักดี ปรากฏว่า พสกนิกรทุกเพศทุกวัย ตั้งแต่ลูกเล็กเด็กแดงไปจนถึงผู้สูงอายุจากที่ต่าง ๆ พร้อมใจกันสวมเสื้อสีเหลืองมาจับจองลานพระบรมรูปทรงม้า เพื่อรอการถวายพระพร]

to disavow one's promise; go back against one's word.

dam; water dam; dike; bank

compete against; contend with; race against (sports)

district; region; precinct; geographical section; jurisdiction; prefecture; area; land; territory

part; side; party faction

[is] sectional

to hobble; to limp

egg

[sexual; colloquial slang] a man's testicle (ball)

century egg

[ไข้อีดำอีแดง] scarlet fever

[คงจะกำลังกิน] <subject> is probably (in the process of) eating

[คงจะได้ปิด] <subject> will probably be able to close

[คงจะไม่ได้เดิน] <subject> will probably be unable to walk; <subject> probably wouldn't have walked

[คงจะวิ่ง] <subject> probably will run; <subject> may run; <subject> might run

[คงไป] <subject> probably goes

[is] durable; permanent, lasting

[ความคงทน] durability

Strategic Formulation Committee for Water Resources Management

faculty; teaching staff

sanitation worker; garbage man

[คนจีน] Chinese person

a fanatic; enthusiast; "freak"

black; person of African ancestry

smuggler

to associate; socialize; be friends

to preserve one's widowhood; remain unmarried after losing a spouse

dirty stain

moisturizer