having sticky fingers; compulsive thievery; habitual movement of one's hands; marks from being handled often
to run out of; to be short of; to be out of stock; to be out of (e.g. breath); to lose (one's patience, concentration, etc.)
to watch for an unguarded moment
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
extremely fast; in a flash; too quick for the eye to catch
in the early period (of something); at the beginning
wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land
rejuvenation; restoration of youth
mimicry; mimesis; camouflage
to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite
reputation; respectability
to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke
plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution
planner; drafter; deviser
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
heavy load; heavy luggage; heavy freight; heavy burden; heavy responsibility; encumbrance
to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)
emperor (of Japan); mikado
daini (type of playing cards)
rag; old cloth; tattered clothes; ragged clothes; fault (one is trying to hide); defect
evacuation order; evacuation notice
ankle; malleolus; ankle bone
to raise one's head; to come to the fore; to rise into importance; to gain strength; to rear its head
cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
all around; as far as the eye can see
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted
to gather up into one's arms; to lift; to carry
wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
magic bullet; magic bullets
fight to the death; mortal combat; deathmatch
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that
(arch.) difference (from one another); (arch.) different thing; (arch.) other; unusual; extraordinary