economic fortune; luck with money
dissemination; scattering; sprinkling; spraying
spontaneous generation; abiogenesis; natural occurrence; spontaneous occurrence
to dwell; to live; to stay at; to take shelter at; to be pregnant; to be part of a constellation
leaving something where it is; abandoning something
for (some) doubtful points to remain
pastime; hobby; favorite amusement; dissipation; debauchery; loose living
to be lifted up; to be hung up; to twitch upwards; to turn upward; to slant upward
farmer; farming family; farmhouse
payment (for labour); pay; charge; wages
cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)
suspicious character (person, figure)
like a decent person; human
desirable prey; easy game; easy mark; easy prey; easy target
hibernation; winter sleep; torpor
the whole area; all areas
about when; about what time; how soon
remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)
thin washer on either side of the guard (tsuba) of a sword; (up to) the hilt; wits' end
to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)
in search of; in order to look for
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
to look upwards; to look up
sorry to bother you, but ...
listening comprehension; aural comprehension; hearing what others say; gathering information, opinions, etc.; public hearing
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
inn town; post town; post-station town
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor
1,000,000; one million; million; many