used item; secondhand item; old; used; previous
living; life; judo art of resuscitation; action; activity
hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit
miraculous god; wonder-working god
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
salvation by faith in Amitabha; relying on others; depending on others
powerless; helpless; incompetent
to express in a refined fashion; to weave a web of words
to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play
to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice)
to wish (for); to pray (for); to hope (for); to pray silently; to recite (Buddha's name, sutras, etc.) in one's mind; to chant (a silent prayer)
ashes (of the deceased); remains from cremation
to grow weak; to become weak; to lose strength
sense of emptiness; empty feeling; feeling of meaninglessness
to cheer up; to be encouraged (by); to be in high spirits
ray of hope; glimmer of hope
to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
this impure world (as opposed to the pure land); (arch.) feces; (arch.) faeces
pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise; Pure Land Buddhism
to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
catch; catching; catch; shop tout; puller-in; catching (in swimming and boating); catching the water
cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum
one more time; once more; once again
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that
to fall below (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to be less than; to be lower than; to fall just short of; to be just under
a minute; moment; an instant; stubborn; hot-headed