success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
no matter how much time passes
private; foot soldier; infantryman; underling; low level worker; minor player
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
to punish (e.g. a child, etc.)
duty; function; office; mission; task
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
notice or order handed down from above; announcement; notification; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) to the concerned parties
meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.); suggestively; broadly; sneeringly
perfect; just right; ideal
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
to smirk; to grin broadly
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
to be bewildered; to be perplexed
origin of an affair; spark that lit the fuse; beginning
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
to take command; to give direction
meeting place; rendezvous (point); roll-call (assembly) point; appointed (designated) place
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
threatening attitude; menacing look; angry look
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
party; group; crew; company (of troops); corps; unit
I got it; I see; I now know; So that's the reason
to take over; to capture; to seize; to hijack (vehicle, account, etc.)
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
to come together; to join; to get married; to become a married couple
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
top-heavy; big-headed; overly-theoretical
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
achievement; feat; meritorious deed; distinguished service