one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
departure (of a boat, plane); setting sail; leaving port; putting out to sea; takeoff
(sea) voyage; navigation; sailing; passage; cruise
trip by boat; sea trip; voyage; cruise
old friend; old acquaintance
bright; cheerful; in high spirits; clear (sky); cloudless; sunny
locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent
Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo)
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
fighter (for); militant; champion (of); boxer
forest fire; wildfire; bushfire
to purify; to cleanse; to exorcise; to purge; to ward off
simply; merely; only; solely
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
carelessly; inattentively
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something
mountain hunt; combing the mountains (for a criminal, etc.)
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
choosing between two things; two choices
three stars (shape); three stars (rating); Orion's belt; Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
unmatched (unparalleled) accuracy
to rub; to chafe; to wear out; to become worn; to lose one's innocence; to become sly
to muster (e.g. one's courage); to call forth; to rouse up; to be enlivened; to be invigorated
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N
veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced
operation (of a machine); running; working (and earning money); workload; deployment (e.g. to a production environment); release
from the beginning; without hesitation; entirely; completely; head-on; head-first
to force (someone) to take part; to take along unwillingly
opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes)
to manage skillfully; to manoeuvre (e.g. car, horse); to maneuver
rate; ratio; one tenth; ten percent; (comparative) profit; gain; assignment
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
things left (to one) by the deceased; inherited item; estate; lost item; lost property
contraction of a disease; morbidity
to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to; to attend
to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set
to bake (a design onto ceramic); to fire (on); to burn into (one's memory); to sear into; to print (from a negative); to brand; to fuse together (metals)
to tower extremely high; to pierce the sky; to overflow (with energy); to run high (of spirits, momentum, etc.); to surge (of a feeling)
because; the reason is; if you want to know why