to fall completely silent; to become still as death
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise
to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (cat)
seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up
audience; spectator; spectators
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
single-mother household; fatherless family
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; death (usu. of a relative); bereavement
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
finding employment; getting a job
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
older sister; elder sister
from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
to continue to work; to work away (at)
one's own child; one's own children
to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; (lit.) to make (grind) one's body into dust
begging; pestering; pleading; coaxing
annual (plant); first-year student
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
shopping; purchased goods
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
loveable; very likeable; like very much
performer; entertainer; celebrity
hospitalization; hospitalisation
to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
sickroom; hospital room; ward
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
shout of abuse; jeers; boos
to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment
only; merely; but; no more than
department store; department
at that time; in those days