weather; climate; disposition; temperament
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
ignorance; (lack of) enlightenment or civilization (civilisation); unenlightened; uncivilized; uncivilised
to sigh; to breathe a sigh
to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar); Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
administration; governance; the authorities; authority
division; section; demarcation; partition; segmentation; subdivision
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
(United States of) America; USA
millionaire; one's superior; one's elder; (arch.) virtuous and gentle person; (arch.) female owner of a whorehouse in a post town; (arch.) chief of a post town
public relations department (section, office)
terraced fields; terraced farm
agriculture and fisheries
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
serious; severe; grave; acute
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
to do something by choice; to like; to be fond of
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
portion; part; snapshot; glimpse
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect
to come near; to let someone approach; to bring near; to bring together; to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to let someone drop by
how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres); six ken (10.91 m)
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
to bend many times; to turn and twist; to zigzag
colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction