imperial envoy; imperial messenger
port city; harbor city; harbour city
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
to calculate; to compute; to deduce; to infer; to conclude
to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
(my) wife; inside the home; one's family
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son
regular; normal; formal; legal; established; legitimate
changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)
half and half; fifty-fifty
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
a real man would (shut up and) ...
sitting with one knee drawn up
helping oneself to a drink; pouring one's own drink
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
dagger; stiletto; confidant; right-hand man
changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons
Thursday; wood (first of the five elements)
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
another helping; second helping; seconds; command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand
can't help worrying; besides myself with worry
to nip (something) in the bud
to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder
father and child; father and son; father and daughter
as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time
nucleus; backbone; medium-level; mid-level; main body (of troops); crack troops
irritating; aggravating; upsetting
loyal retainer; loyal subject