bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)
to look on enviously while doing nothing; (lit.) to hold a finger in one's mouth
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; (lit.) herbivore
to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts
attractive body; nice-looking body
recovery; rescue; recapture
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
one must constantly be on one's guard with ...; one cannot be too careful of ...
to cool down; to get cold; to cool off (excitement, temper, etc.); to subside; to be cold (eyes, expression, etc.); to be composed
rare; strange; odd; peculiar
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
requital of a favour (favor); repayment (of an obligation, kindness, etc.)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to clamber; to climb with hands and feet; to crawl up; to creep up
erection when waking in the morning; nocturnal penile tumescence; morning glory; morning wood
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
fight; fighting spirit; fight!; do your best
to worry (about); to fret (over); to be anxious
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
to blow through; to blow across
again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again
base; mean; vulgar; despicable; low
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit
ironclad rule; inviolable rule; invariable principle; iron law
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
to say; to be pleased to say
cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum
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.)
to look attractive; to look nice
distant place; remote point
ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)