abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
what's what; heads or tails
steel frame; steel beam; steel girder
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
Hercules; Herakles; Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules)
desk pad; sheet of plastic (or cardboard, felt, etc.) placed under writing paper; being pinned under; being caught under; model; pattern
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
overall height; distance from the ground to the highest point of an object
metre; meter; meter; gauge
weight; heavyweight boxer
suspension (usu. vehicle)
concussion (of the brain)
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
long ago; already; a long time ago
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
check; restraint; oppression; suppression
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
incident; affair; happening; event
wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
to chip; to nick; to break; to lack
bog; marsh; swamp; quandary; dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself; imbroglio
to assume an aspect; to take on an appearance
meeting; get-together (e.g. among friends)
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
family; members of a family
which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon