fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness
classroom learning (as contrasted to practical training); classroom lecture; desk study
independence; autonomy; self-reliance
watering hole; watering place
swigging; gulping down; guzzling; quaffing
competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)
to chase; to run after; to pursue
secrecy; confidentiality; privacy; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal)
heavy-hearted; depressed; dispirited; (feeling) down; feeling reluctant (to do)
tumultuous (with everyone voicing their opinions simultaneously); uproarious
to grow older (than expected); to advance in age
relationship; connection; involvement; entanglement; implication (e.g. in a crime)
emphasizing (a point, argument, etc.); stressing; insistence; arguing strongly (for, against)
forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money
look who's talking; I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?
great love; passionate affair
the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; (lit.) the demon's gate; weak point; Achilles' heel
what; so-and-so; such and such; what?; wait; well, well
you'll regret this!; I'll get you for this!; just you wait!
male help; male labor; man's handwriting; (arch.) kanji
to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
impermanence; mutable; uncertain; ever-changing
hearsay; hearing secondhand; hearing through the grapevine
to go (come) inside; to step into; to enter
taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
shortage of talented people; shortfall in human resources
human resources; man-power resources
practice; exercise; military exercise; manoeuvres; seminar
inspection; study by observation; field trip; sitting out (e.g. PE class)
something like ...; something called ...
to face on; to look out on to
to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to be near (a certain age)
consideration (for); thoughtfulness; solicitude; care; watchfulness; concern
legs and loins; lower body; foundations; underpinnings
important matter; requirement; requisite; necessary condition
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
to have one's heart stop beating; to be shocked; to be staggered
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act