large stage; grand stage; the big stage; grand setting
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
high heels; high-heeled shoes
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
older sister; elder sister
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
with a tap; with a knock; smoothly (proceed); without a hitch; even; equal
shoeshine; shoe polishing
what the hell; oh, great!; son of a gun; holy mackerel; oh no!; holy cow!
being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook
lightly and smoothly (of movements); swiftly; glidingly; (progressing) smoothly; (solving) easily
disinfection; sterilization; sterilisation
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
cyborg; cybernetic organism
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
minimum; lowest; minimal; least
to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of
system; institution; organization; organisation
annulment; abolition; repeal; rescission
blind female beggar who sings or plays shamisen
fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
price; cost; value; worth; value
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
to expose; to disclose; to lay bare; to confess
whether one likes it or not; whether willing or not; willy-nilly