to remind (someone of something); to call attention to; to make sure of; to emphasize; to emphasise
research; investigation; enquiry; inquiry; study
professor; teaching; instruction
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
episode; anecdote; vignette
good feeling; good will; favourable impression; favorable impression
to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize
superior; superiors; senior
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
please; kindly; I beg of you; by all means; without fail
scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
delightful; joyous; joyful; happy; desirable; welcome
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span
Taiwanese (language); Taiwanese Hokkien
garden (esp. with trees); park
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
to beat to death; to kill
how can (one) do something
mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)
novice; greenhorn; squirt; worthless person
stepping back; drawing back
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
balloon (esp. small, toy variety); airship; blimp
the other day; lately; recently
to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)
everyday language; common parlance; vernacular
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
aggression; invasion; raid
(linguistic) competence; language capability
hostility; animosity; enmity