to strengthen; to emphasize; to emphasise
worldwide financial crisis; global depression
news commentary; comments on the news
student union; student center; students' hall
hurried construction; hurried production; hasty manufacture; hasty formation
shack; shanty; hut; barracks
rail car (esp. a small one used in mines, logging, etc.); trolley; tram
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
daily necessities; everyday item
to be finished; to be completed; to be done
main building (as opposed to an annex, outbuilding, etc.); this library; this museum; this theatre
confusion; mess; mix; huddle
silk products produced near Yūki (using natural indigo dye); Yūki pongee
to gather (bringing something); to gather (to exchange something)
hunger and thirst; starvation
empty air; sky; shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness
storehouse; warehouse; godown
unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold
to enlarge; to widen; to spread out
projection; protrusion; lump; bulge
to boil; to decoct; to infuse
small-sized; small-scale; miniature; small; little; tiny
time of departure; (on the) point of departure; just as one is leaving
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
leaving someone behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone
to amuse oneself; to make merry
(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
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
misremembering; remembering incorrectly; mistaken memory
to rise; to get up; to stand up; to sit up
sōmen; fine white noodles
relatively quickly (esp. actions); quite suddenly (esp. wind, rain, etc.)