point worthy of note; highlight; high point; good prospects for the future; promise
outrageous; monstrous; appalling; inordinate; overambitious
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
to be flurried; to be confused; to lose one's head
very interesting; of great interest
to put one's hand on; to touch
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
such; this sort of; like this
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
lightly; easily; carelessly
to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst
to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver
to stumble a step or two forward (when trying to stop); to pass one's destination and stumble a step or two forward; to totter
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
mountain range; mountain belt
to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
so-so; passable; now, now; my, my
impressiveness; impact; force; intensity; appeal; strength
unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
largehearted; frank; unaffected
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth
essence; quintessence; spirit; soul; heart; pith
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
enclosing wall; boundary fence; obstacle; barrier