pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
one's confidant; trusted friend; trusted retainer
successful execution; accomplishment; completion; fulfillment; carrying through
vulgar; coarse; crude; boorish; ill-mannered; mean
brutal; cruel; merciless; ruthless; cold-blooded
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive
(large) compilation; culmination (of hard work)
divine grace; divine favour; blessing; benefit; help
trickster (in mythology); trickster; swindler; trickster; magician
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
entrails; giblets; tripe; offal
fat (of meat); fatty meat
putting into operation; invocation
to begin talking; to open up
to check through; to thoroughly investigate
one's social standing; one's position; one's place; one's station in life
modern civilization; modern civilisation
one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit
air conditioner; air conditioning; aircon
made in Japan; Japanese-made
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
all night long; all through the night
pent-up resentment; grudges and hard feelings
care; precaution; guarding; caution
a lot; many; (not) much; (not) many; almost (none)
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
to have a guilty conscience; to have (something) lie heavy on one's conscience
to be unable to stand; to be weak in the knees; to be paralyzed (e.g. with fear) (paralysed); to be dumbfounded
to do a silly thing; to do something stupid
to move back; to draw back; to lessen; to subside; to resign; to retire
failure; collapse; breakdown; (arch.) tear (in clothing, etc.); (arch.) rip; (arch.) split
head-on fight; head-to-head contest; serious contest
total energy; all efforts
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying