Heike family; Taira family
speed; velocity; pace; velocity
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
fall; drop; descent; coming down
way; method; means; resource; course
minute; detailed; careful; scrupulous; thorough
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
beforehand; in advance; previously
retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior
tire track; traces of a person or thing; path one has taken; locus
course (of events); development; progress; market order; order without limit
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation; preparedness; observation and contemplation
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
balance of power (in a relationship); power dynamic
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to take part in; to be a party to; to side with; to support; to agree with
to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named
Cleopatra's nose; (fig.) a small thing with a huge influence
common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition
refutation; rebuttal; retort
stable boy; stable hand; groom
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
attribute; property; context; character class, type, fetish, etc.
impartiality; neutrality; fairness
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet
to take advantage of; to impose on; to make an entry (in an account book)
place; room; margin; scope
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
to grow up; to become an adult
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
this country; our country