suffering; distress; hardship; trial
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
to accomplish; to finish; to fulfill
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
in comparison to; rather than
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
than; from; out of; except; but; more
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; current of the times; trend of the times
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
to strain (oneself); to bear down; to exert oneself; to put on a bold front; to make a show of strength; to swagger
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
top; summit; twelve o'clock (usu. midnight); top of one's head; top of a helmet
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
hokora; small wayside shrine
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
such; like that; that sort of; very
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape)
isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way