how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
perseverance; determination; tenacity; energy
main cause; primary factor
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
commencing with; including
lazy; idle; indolent; slothful
fortune; riches; goods; incorporated foundation
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être
rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
economic world; financial circles; business community
your will; your pleasure; your wish; certainly; as you say; you are quite right
stale; hackneyed; cliched
adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
to beat around the bush; to not speak frankly; to talk in a roundabout way
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
immovable; motionless; firm; Acala (Wisdom King); Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
head; brains; intellect; understanding
excelling; surpassing; outdoing
exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
to drive on; to urge forward (e.g. cattle); to rouse (game from its cover); to press a tenant to leave; to evict
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
helper; supporter; second; foreign player (hired to strengthen a team)
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
desk pad; sheet of plastic (or cardboard, felt, etc.) placed under writing paper; being pinned under; being caught under; model; pattern
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
rationalization; justification
to contact; to get in touch with; to check in (with)