iron pipe; steel pipe; metal pipe
falling (down); tumbling (down); failure; failing; renouncing Christianity and converting to Buddhism (during the Edo period); apostasy
postbox; mailbox; pillar box
principle; theory; fundamental truth
postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
mail service; postal service; mail; mail; postal matter; postal items
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
for example; for instance; e.g.
to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
process; course; mechanism
children's story; fairy tale
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
completely unknown; unexpected; having no clue about
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object
deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
judgement; judgment; appraisal (e.g. of an antique); evaluation; forensics; (criminal) identification
physical evidence; material evidence
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
deadly serious; deadly earnest
to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen