education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
Mara; demon king who attempted to hinder Gautama Buddha from attaining enlightenment; obstacle to enlightenment; penis
narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
without permission; without notice
to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing
to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
not only ... but (also); as well as ...
since then; from that time; ever since
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
disturbance; perturbation; derangement
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
private; confidential; informal; secret; (within the) family circle; (on the) inside
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
nonchalant; unconcerned; in a casual manner
enquiry; inquiry; query; interrogation; ENQ
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
connections; contacts; influence
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine
timid; faint-hearted; wimpish
these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately
whenever they come together
state; state of affairs; appearance; look; sign; indication
lever; agent (causing something to happen); instrument; assistant; helper
restlessly; nervously; uneasily; in a fidget
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
had better ...; had better not ...
still (continuing); as ever; further
bravery; courage; heroism