to be in danger of; to be liable to
strong person; the strong; the powerful
that; the matter in question
possessiveness; desire to monopolize (monopolise); desire for control
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful
to answer; to respond; to meet; to satisfy; to accept
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse
to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over
to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken
to happen to have on hand or in stock
one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
to fight against; to oppose; to face
to become scared; to have an attack of nerves; to have a yellow streak; to chicken out; to run out of courage
to thrust down; to push off
to be astonished to hear; to be incredulous about; to express disbelief; who do you think you're kidding by saying (that); what a laugh!
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable); forward puller (of a rickshaw)
gift; premium; prize (lottery drawing, pachinko, etc.); party favor (favour)
to fly; to race away; to vanish; to disappear; to rush over; to hurry over
snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi)
minimum; minuscule; local minimum
well done!; good job!; good work!; you did it!; bravo!
to look down (on); to condescend (to)
discrepancy; discord; disagreement; mismatch; dissonance
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
to lose sight of; to miss