bureau; department; office (e.g. post, telephone); broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio); affair; situation
vessel; ship; shipping; seacraft
spectacles for far-sightedness; telescope
to clamour; to crowd; to jostle
tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend
dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)
naked eye; the physical eye
Honshū (largest of the four main islands of Japan); Honshu
to not match well (e.g. at the seams); to not mesh properly (of gears); to differ (e.g. of opinions); to clash; to be in conflict (e.g. with the facts)
many; a lot of; a great number of; numerous
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
to slide down; to slip down
anchorage; anchoring; mooring
whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief
steering a ship; controlling; maneuvering; piloting
cruise; navigation; sailing
rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)
embarking (a ship); embarkation; boarding; ship (carrying someone)
water's edge; shore; waterside
(on the) sea; surface of the sea
enemy territory; hostile place
letting (someone) die without helping
to believe implicitly; to believe firmly; to believe entirely
power generation facility
let's see what you've got; show me what you've got
on board a ship; aboard a ship
to be stormy or choppy (sea); to go through hard times; to be broke; to be gloomy; to be glum
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
speed of a boat; draft; draught
(on) land; ground; shore; track and field; athletics
to make one's name well known; to gain much fame
pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
lying low (and awaiting one's chance); biding one's time; submitting at first (to then strike later)
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)