training; drill; practice; discipline
instant; moment; for an instant
aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
bright red; deep red; flushed (of face); downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter
to surge; to well up; to gush out
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood
sad; wretched; deplorable
to scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
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
unbelievable; incredible; implausible
to cling to; to hold on to; to grapple; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of
beautiful legs; great legs
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
pit of the stomach; solar plexus
to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home
to run into; to collide with; to come to the end of (a street); to run into (difficulties, problems, etc.); to run up against
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam
to take refuge in; to succeed in running away
long and narrow; lanky; gangling; spindly
being left out; being excluded; being ostracized
falling down; tumbling; reversing; inverting; getting upset
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough
to chase; to run after; to pursue
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
to run past from behind; to run through (e.g. gate, one's mind)
to get entangled; to get tangled; to have poor control over (one's tongue, feet, etc.); to trip over; to become complicated
to collapse into; to flop onto
falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall; mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside