in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
to cut and even up; to cut several pieces to the same size
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
department (or school) of technology, engineering or science
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
partly open; in half bloom
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
snack food (esp. potato chips, popcorn, etc.); munchie
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
to mistake (A for B); to misread
to be ready; to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be adjusted; to be regulated
porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics
knee; lap; knee and thigh (while sitting)
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
reading partway; leaving half-read
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
technical book; specialized book; treatise
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
Formosan sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to look downwards (at); to lower one's gaze; to drop one's eyes
usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects