(written) contract; agreement
careful; elaborate; scrupulous
maintenance; preservation; improvement
review; reconsideration; revision
blank form; sheets of paper; sheet of paper
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
faint; slight; vague; nebulous; indeterminate; tinge of ...
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
(a) step ahead; (a) jump ahead
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
to regain one's breath; to catch one's breath
in the following manner; as follows
to sit for an examination
appreciation; thanks; gratitude
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste; (arch.) sudden
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
service; ministry; attendance; offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free
disturbance of mind; losing one's head; being upset; transition; changing; moving
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
to inform; to notify; to know; to reign
duty; obligation; responsibility
frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
to see through; to see the true nature of something
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
anyhow; in any case; at any rate; at best; at most
a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)