stage (of a theatre, concert hall, etc.); stage performance; stage production; setting (of a story); scene; sphere (of activity)
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
ten; 10; ten years of age
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
my husband; one's family; family member
lifetime supply; lifetime's worth (of something)
degree of familiarity; popularity; name recognition; notoriety
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends); planetary ring
witnessing; observing; sighting
ranking; toplist (e.g. of WWW sites)
voting; ballot; poll; vote
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
uh-huh; mm-hmm; with a moan; with a groan
memory; ability to remember
Nakahara Chuuya (1907-1937)
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way
millet grain; something extremely tiny
homeroom; form room; form class
class teacher; homeroom teacher; home room teacher; form teacher
helmet (of a warrior); headpiece
first period (e.g. first class in school day)
fossil; petrifaction; petrification; fossilization
straw-rope pattern pottery; Jomon ware
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred
close to the wall; alongside the wall
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
to laugh off (a rumor, worries, etc.); to laugh away
to twist someone's arm and throw them to the ground; to hold (someone) down by twisting their arm; to wrestle (someone) to the floor; to force (someone) to yield (e.g. an argument); to make (someone) surrender
unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless
to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate