regret; repentance; remorse
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
employee (of a store); shop assistant; clerk; salesperson
to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
side (of something, or taking someone's side); part; (watch) case
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
clear; obvious; evident; bright; light
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
choices; alternatives; options
paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
as; because; with; due to
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
much less; to say nothing of
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
then; in that case; considering; if that is the case; if so
first-rate; finest quality; the best
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
like this; this sort; this way
that is to say; so that means
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed