shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; social withdrawal; shunning other people
to start working; to take action
lack of innovation; stupidity
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front
to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants
waiting on a table; serving (at dinner); waiter; waitress; office boy; office girl
bragging of one's misfortune
both are bad; neither is good; one's as bad as the other; both are to blame; six of one, half a dozen of the other
failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop
activity; activity; (the) active
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
sooner or later; in due time; in due course
wagashi; traditional Japanese confectionery
visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; inquiry (about someone's health); letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; get-well letter
thickly; heavily; richly; severely; strongly
interpenetration of spirit between the poet and nature in a haiku
will; desire; eagerness; interest; drive; motivation
adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation
just past noon; afternoon
disadvantageous; long (odds)
several times; a few times
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to be freezing cold (of the weather); to be bitterly cold; to freeze; to become frozen; to freeze over
sharp parting remark; parting threat
quirk of fate; twist of fate; (an) irony
human intellect; knowledge
ocean; large sea; fabric pattern
closing; closure; shutdown; lockout
ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual
railroad network; railroad system
stratagem; artifice; trick; ruse; scheme; tactics
to stir up; to poke (the fire); to beat (an egg); to arouse (interest, feelings, etc.); to stir; to stoke
truth is stranger than fiction
product; produce; result; fruit
posterity; future generations; future life
sacred scripture; sacred book; holy book; writings of a sage