overbearing; imperious; domineering; peremptory
relation; connection; affinity
to follow (a road, path, etc.); to trace; to follow (a clue, scent, tracks, plot, etc.); to trace (a route, history, family tree, etc.); to head towards (of a situation); to go in the direction of
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
(doing) various things; (doing) this and that; being apt to; being prone to; at any rate; anyhow
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
looking like a ...; acting as if a ...
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
mercy; compassion; clemency; rufous hawk-cuckoo; northern hawk-cuckoo
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; paw!; shake!
Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land); paradise; heaven on earth
social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; good family
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
to avoid being seen; to be clandestine
to seal (e.g. a letter); to prevent (e.g. movement); to forbid; to block (e.g. speech)
income; earnings; revenue; proceeds; takings; receipts
rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt
rented house; house for rent
unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable
putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank); accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank
pension (esp. public servant's); (arch.) a lord giving a land holding to a vassal
going to work; leaving for work; attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); reporting for work
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
difficult to ... (physically or emotionally); hard to ...
last ray of hope; only hope
trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
even more; still more; one step; one rung; one paragraph; one passage
financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; homeworking; simple job carried out at home; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending
factory; plant; mill; workshop
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
not worth considering; out of the question
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
ceiling; ceiling (e.g. of share price); ceiling price
to hang; to suspend; to hang oneself; to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth; to turn upwards (as if being pulled); to be slanted (of eyes)
rather; sooner; preferably; on the contrary; if anything
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards