borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
comrade in arms; war buddy; fellow soldier
trickery; wiles; finesse; Machiavellism
to whirl; to eddy; to swirl; to whirl around (of feelings, thoughts, etc.); to swirl around; to surge
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
soft; tender; gentle; mild; light (topic, book, etc.); informal
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
(many people) sleeping bunched together in a single room; sleeping together in a huddle
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
advance; moving forward; progress
departure; setting off; being used up; being consumed; passage of time; lapse; rehearsal
after a short while; not long after; soon; before long; shortly thereafter
form; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
taking no notice (of); thinking nothing of; disregarding; not aware of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration
dealing fully (with); going into (issue, etc.); stepping into; alcove
kasaya; monk's stole; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder)
the work of man; human feat; something humanly possible
to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to pull through; to get over; to surpass; to outdo
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
evolution; evolution; becoming more advanced; progress
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
(more than) enough; too much; bitterly; extremely; keenly
consideration; inquiry; enquiry; investigation; study
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
doctor's degree; doctorate; PhD
university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
knowledge; information; opinion; view
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
tsk; tut; shoot; chirp; tweet
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
leg strength; walking ability; running ability
to jump down; to leap down; to jump off; to leap off
remains; corpse; (dead) body