appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
older brother; elder brother
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
beep; honk (car horn); buzz (buzzer); boo (wrong answer, like buzzer on quiz shows)
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
promptly; immediately; quickly; indifferently
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
tough; strong; stiff; tenacious
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
younger brother; little brother; brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) apprentice
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
fool; idiot; dotage; senility; touched in the head (from); out of it (from)
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne