courtesy call; going around to say hello (or goodbye) to everybody; making the rounds
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
to be crowded; to be packed; to be busy; to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with many things); to be packed (of one's schedule)
person who gets lonely easily; person who does not like to be alone; person who craves company
female friend; woman friend
to prostrate oneself (before)
juniors dominating seniors; inferiors overthrowing their superiors; retainer supplanting his lord
exhibition; display; putting on show
person with an unhealthy romantic obsession
as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated
reduced scale; scaling down
no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen
degree of perfection; level of completion; degree of completion
manual transmission; MT; megaton; megatonne; magnetic tape; master tape; medical technologist
bazaar; bazar; special sale (at a department store)
mark (for quick identification or recognition); sign; landmark; guide; (arch.) trademark
to feel indebted (to); to feel grateful; to be much obliged
with a (light) slapping sound
Venus (goddess); Venus (planet)
to be sloppy; to be lazy; to be worn out; to be exhausted; to be worn out (e.g. equipment); to have stopped working
symmetry; balance; proportion; uniformity
gap; narrow space between things; valley; gorge; loophole (in a castle wall); arrow slit
acquaintance; friend; (arch.) lover
not yet known; unknown; strange
you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs; a small sacrifice may be necessary to solve a more pressing problem
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star
one act (of a play); scene; event
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
to be superstitious; to believe in omens
kiss scene; kissing scene