zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
to feel like it; to get to think that way; to become so minded
(period of) a year; during the era (of)
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
harboring; harbouring; cherishing; entertaining
correctional facility (for juveniles); juvenile detention centre (center); reformatory
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
spirituality; spiritual nature
disliking; hating; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)
ingenious; skillful; clever; deft; sophisticated
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
several years; a few years
to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other; to have sex; to make love
to form; to make; to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to accomplish; to achieve; to change (into)
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
no matter what; whatever happens; in any situation; rain or shine
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
year-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)
holiday; vacation; day off; time off; leave; furlough
holiday season (e.g. Christmas, Thanksgiving)
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
sense of anticipation; feeling of expectation; feeling of hope
festival; feast; carnival; matsuri
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
to become red; to redden; to blush
careful; elaborate; scrupulous
preparations; preliminary arrangements; spade work; mise en place; groundwork