to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
with a whack; with a thump; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; vacantly; blankly
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
young lady (in ref. to a maid, etc.)
(someone else's) daughter
carrying on one's back (e.g. baby); piggyback ride
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
to carry (a child) on one's back; to piggyback; (arch.) to take on (a job, responsibility, etc.)
aim; goal; prospect; outlook
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
house mouse (Mus musculus)
mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
unable to finish (on time, etc.); unbearable; intolerable; beyond endurance
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
sticky; gluey; gummy; stickiness; something sticky
good flavor; good flavour; delicacy; dainty
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
detestable; abhorrent; loathsome
to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back
falling into a doze; dozing off; nodding off
one's family; family member
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
unable to concentrate on (due to distractions, etc.)
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
rough (touch, voice, etc.); coarse; gritty; rattling (of beans, beads, etc.)