to force (someone) to take part; to take along unwillingly
meter; gauge; metre (i.e. 100 cm); meter; animator
proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
to roll over; to tumble; to roll about (with laughter)
counter-current; adverse tide; regurgitation (of blood)
only recently; just of late
to come back; to bloom a second time
to be pressed for time; to be pressed by urgent business; to have one's pants on fire
smokehole on hearth; hearth; (kitchen) furnace
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
reflection in a mirror; reflected image; inverse (of a point); mirror image
recitation (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); chanting; singing; composition (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); composed poem
most difficult; next to impossible
substantiation; materialization; materialisation; (specific to object language classes) instantiation
Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i
pole; climax; extreme; extremity
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
sample; example; specimen; display model (e.g. plastic food models used by restaurants)
outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment
piece (e.g. poetry); poem; essay; book; story
tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel
to be in danger of; to be liable to
given the situation; now that it has come to this; if it comes to this
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
freezing weather; agar-agar; vegetable gelatin
irregular; indeterminate; tramp (steamer)
spending time with one's family on one's day off work; family duty
last week; the week before
crisply; with a crunch; refreshingly; sharply; (sitting) straight
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
coming and going; recurring (esp. thoughts)
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
leaping over multiple steps in stairs (e.g. when in a hurry)
lightly; nimbly; with agility; casually; readily; regularly
migratory bird; bird of passage
to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with