losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover; lame duck; hopeless situation
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up
soon; before long; shortly; close (by); near; nearby
arrangement; pact; agreement
for some reason or other; somehow; whatsitsname; what-you-call-it; and so on; and you know the rest
smooth (skin, stone, etc.); sleek; velvety; silky
one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that
to exert oneself greatly; to take pains; to make efforts; to break a bone
to learn a lesson (usu. from an unpleasant experience); to be good for someone
to wish to go well; to have good intentions
invention; intelligent; clever; smart
service station; gas station; shortstop; sporty sedan; steamship; SS; Secret Service (US)
wisdom; intelligence; sagacity
spread (e.g. of a disease); rampancy; infestation; proliferation; being widespread
infection; contagion; becoming infected; being infected (e.g. with harmful ideas); being influenced (by)
sweet voice; seductive voice
crossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); crossing (east-west); traversing; cutting horizontally; sectioning laterally
to grasp back; to squeeze back; to grab back
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
being extremely bad or uncomfortable (at or with something); having a dread (of something)
to overstep the mark; to go too far; to overdo it
to hang up; to end a telephone conversation
irrelevant; vague; beside the mark; elusive; not to the point
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
inscrutable; incomprehensible
thousand years; millennium; eternity
eastern country; eastern provinces; Kanto provinces