serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
to go; to come; to lose; to be defeated; to be stumped (by); to be at a loss; to visit (a shrine, grave, etc.)
flawless; absolute perfection
reading in a monotone; stiff delivery; wooden delivery; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
little finger; pinky; fourth (occ. fifth) finger; little toe
to dig up; to dig out; to pick (nose, teeth, etc.); to pry into; to examine closely; to dredge up
dubious tale; cock-and-bull story; questionable information; taking care not to be fooled
consideration; inquiry; enquiry; investigation; study
nothing; no balls (or no strikes); count of zero; without; none at all
to serve a master; to serve one's employer faithfully
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
lineage; pedigree; family line; birth
tengu; red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains; bragging; conceit; braggart
to call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess
delusion; wild idea; (wild) fancy; (ridiculous) fantasy
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
late at night; small hours of the morning
rude; impolite; mannerless; snotty
evening; night; nighttime
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger
from now; from this moment; henceforth
motorcycle; motorbike; bike; bicycle
to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out
a (short) time; a while; one time (in the past); a period; (arch.) two-hour period
vagrancy; wandering; nomadism
miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking
mercy; compassion; clemency; rufous hawk-cuckoo; northern hawk-cuckoo
tandem; (riding with a) passenger on a motorcycle
squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae); Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
to jump down; to leap down; to jump off; to leap off
night view; night skyline; nightscape
system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing by ear; ad hoc approach
cheerfully; buoyantly; happily; in high spirits