clearly; distinctly; vividly
right away; without delay; as soon as possible; very soon
waiting time; latency; standby time (e.g. cellular phones); queueing time
control; check; restraint; inhibition
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb
single word; a few words; brief comment
cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
(someone else's) child; child; kid
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse
parentless; orphaned; parentless child; orphan
to need; to call for; to require
impossible; unlikely; improbable
something; some kind of; for some reason
bureaucratic routine; red tape
occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling
space (room, area, outer space)
to indicate; to show; to point to
to run off; to break into a run; to start running
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
(instruction) manual; handbook
kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper)
practical; useful; utilitarian; pragmatic
rough (estimate, manner, etc.); crude; broad; loose; careless (work)
just because; even if; even though
vigorously; with great force; energetically; enthusiastically; with spirit
-like; pseudo-; comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts); (arch.) criticism; (arch.) censure
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell