fascination; glamour; glamor; enchantment; seduction
travels; pilgrimage; itinerancy; (accumulated) experiences; (personal) history
to polish up; to shine up
to get narrower; to contract
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
to wait eagerly for; to look forward to
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up
welcome rain; beneficial rain; blessed rain; rain that comes after a drought
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
to (a place); until (a time)
self-satisfaction; rejoicing
with a clink; with a soft thud; with a faint snap (e.g. of a book closing); suddenly; all of a sudden
love; attachment; adoration
to plead; to urge; to pester; to beg; to badger; to complain
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
muddy; covered with mud; mud-caked
walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea); walkingstick; stick insect; leaf insect
land leech (Haemadipsa zeylanica japonica)
to hang down (from); to dangle; to be within one's reach; to dangle (before one's eyes); to be completely reliant on; to be entirely dependent on
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae); trap door located on the walkway in a kabuki theatre; bilge pump (used on traditional Japanese ships)
to bite at; to snap at; to nibble; to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking
tolerable; passable; adequate; so-so
lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
passionate; fervent; affecting; moving; touching
to trouble; to bother; to annoy
rooftop structure, e.g. tower, elevator machine room, etc.
roofed corridor connecting two buildings; connecting passageway; skyway; skybridge; skywalk
and (concurrently; e.g. chauffeur and secretary); in addition to; at the same time; cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study)
(beyond the) limits; scope; boundary
exchange; conversion; replacement; switching (to); switchover
not having met or contacted someone for a long time; neglect of friends
since our last meeting; since we parted
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts