to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
straightforwardly; readily; without hesitation
climax; peak; zenith; apex
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
drama; theatre; theater; play
actor; actress; man of wits; clever person; cunning fellow
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
reliability; trustworthiness; dependability
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
(having) same family and personal name
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
to stop talking; to be silent
quite unlike; not bearing the slightest resemblance
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear)
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
opinion; point of view; visual point
depiction; description; portrayal
smooth; undisturbed; uninterrupted; harmonious
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation; dramatization; embellishment; exaggeration
eternal; unlimited; endless
to act timid (about doing); to show diffidence; to feel ashamed; to feel guilty
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
attention; kind attention; courteous attention
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
to slip through; to make one's way through quickly
way out; means to escape; escape route
to distance oneself (from); to keep (something or someone) at a distance; to maintain a distance (from)
where; which; anyway; anyhow; sooner or later; eventually
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
though; even if; whether ... or ...
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on