obstacle; hindrance; impediment; difficulty
reaction; recoil; kick; backlash
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
handling things like an adult; behaving like a mature grown-up
one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
confused; disordered; faltered; incoherent; inconsistent
to be engrossed; to be enthralled
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
intimacy; familiarity; closeness
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
nodding off (while sitting); dozing
looking depressed; long face
in a hurry; hastily; in feverish haste
I don't care what happens (after this)
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
advance; moving forward; progress
return of something; repayment
supplementary examination
battle for Christmas sales
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
last week; the week before
numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
anxiety (about the future)
to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to); to be unable to act on an equal basis with
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
one place; (all in) the same place; one spot; one location; one part; one passage
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
twenty-second day of the month; twenty-two days
twenty-third day of the month; twenty-three days
January; first month of the lunar calendar
to restore one's energy; to restore one's spirits; to recharge one's batteries
pair of lovers; girlfriend and boyfriend