adventurous spirit; sense of adventure
distant look; faraway look
careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
gas stove; gas cooker; gas range
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
something-something (e.g. platitudes, waffling); yada yada; so-and-so
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
adult striped mullet; in the end; after all is said and done
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
plants and animals; flora and fauna
civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.); to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
should not be; must not be
malicious gossip; backbiting; speaking ill behind someone's back
crafty; tricky; sly; sinister (look)
worry; fear; anxiety; concern
unenlightened; uneducated; ignorant
professor; teaching; instruction
peerless; unequaled; unequalled
unaffected and sincere, with fortitude and vigor (vigour)
four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
display; array (of things); succession (of things)
the other day; recently; this time; on this occasion
marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
pre-nuptial doubts; wedding blues
disappearance; running away; going missing; absconding
heartbreak; grief; sorrow
if it is not ...; if it does not ...
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)