occurrence; happening; incident; event
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
delay; lag; falling behind; falling behind in; lagging behind in
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over (something); pondering
to shake one's head (in denial)
beyond help; past salvation; incorrigible; irredeemable
to hide; to keep to oneself
to spend time (on doing something)
silence (not speaking); muteness
to be scorched into; to be seared into; to make a strong impression; to be etched in (one's memory)
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
critic; reviewer; commentator
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
spinning rapidly; turning quickly; fast-forward (VCR, etc.); scanning
reconstruction; rebuilding; restructuring
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
to visit; to call on; to arrive (of a season, situation, etc.); to come; to appear
thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
silence; stillness; quietness
to throw something to each other; to pass something back and forth; to bandy something around; to take part in a pitching duel
only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be
(length of one's) step; stride; pace
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
rotation (on an axis); rotation (under its own power)
mimicry; mimesis; camouflage
uncertain; doubtful; unreliable; unsteady; unclear; vague
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb
second (unit of time); arc second
to open some distance (e.g. with other people)
number of times; frequency; count
to suspend (from); to hang (down); to dangle
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
all eyes; public attention