chapter one; first chapter
educational institution; school; academy; campus
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
youth; adolescence; springtime of life
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
concurrent engineering; CE
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
lesson; class; teaching; instruction; classwork; schoolwork
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
sword skills; swordsmanship
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to serve as; to act as; to fill (the position of); to play the role of; to be in charge of; to hold (a position)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
to think up; to think out; to knit (a pattern into a sweater, etc.); to start knitting
with a bang bang (e.g. repeated sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace; with great vigor
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to try (out); to have a try (at); to test; to put to the test
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back