cherry tree; cherry blossom; light pink; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder
to begrudge doing; to find bothersome
covered in mud; mud-caked
few decades; many decades; several decades
to throw off (clothes); to cast off; to fling off; to cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.); to discard
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
dead tree; withered tree; leafless tree; bare tree
to receive divine punishment
I sincerely believe in Amitabha; Lord have mercy on me
to lie deep in; to extend far back
exotic mood; exotic atmosphere; exoticism
curious; strange; unusual
traveling expenses; travelling expenses; carfare
to fill in (field, entry, etc.); to fill out (form); to post a message (e.g. on a bulletin-board); to store; to write (data); to flash
room allocation; assignment of rooms
low dining table; tea table
same room; sharing a room; occupying the same room
changing clothes (on another person, e.g. a child or doll); changing the exterior parts (e.g. of a product)
changing one's clothes; (arch.) lady court attendant
assistance; support; subsidy; supplement; spotting (in weight training)
to say time and time again; to say till you're blue in the face
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
ankle; malleolus; ankle bone
plain; unfigured; patternless; solid (color)
stretch (of a material); stretch material; stretch (exercise); stretching; stretch; straight (course)
to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other
superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
zabuton; flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular
sensitive; susceptible; emotional; impressionable; sentimental
box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)
nimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing
cut; slice (meat, fish); fillet
fried prawns; fried shrimp
front tooth; foretooth; incisor
somewhat large; of a larger size; on the large side; large swing (bat, racquet, etc.); long sweeping stroke