society; company; the public; the world
to appear all together; to be all present
eulogistic name; poetic name; euphemism
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
high rating; good reputation
omission; leaving out; abbreviation; abridgment; abridgement
previous year (fiscal, academic, etc.)
exaggerated; overblown; overdone
this occasion; at this time; now
to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
yellowish; cream-coloured; cream-colored
threshold (amount, dose, etc.)
perfect score; full marks; perfection; grading out of a hundred; grading on a scale of 0 to 100
criticism; critique; review; commentary
a head (e.g. taller or shorter); noticeable difference (in competitors' results)
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
to become better; to improve
sailor's song; boat song; sea shanty; barcarolle
disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
gondola (boat, esp. in Venice); gondola (hot-air balloon, airship, etc.); basket; scaffold (building); display shelf (shop)
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
to well up; to burst; to arise
abstention (from voting); renunciation (of a right); withdrawal (from a contest)
both are bad; neither is good; one's as bad as the other; both are to blame; six of one, half a dozen of the other
the teaching profession; education of laity
chapel; building used for worship (in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
sentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish
to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)
combination; union; bond; join (in relational algebra)
unwell; in a bad state; not working properly; out of order; inconvenient; troublesome
hand-rolled sushi (usu. cone-shaped)
traditional fisherman (provided labor to a master in exchange for equipment and sometimes lodging); employed fisherman
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis); domestic Asian water buffalo; wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee); Asian water buffalo