soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
past forty; following right course
seven; seven years of age; four o'clock (old time system)
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
blunder; slip; error; error
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
besides; moreover; in addition
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
at age forty, one has no doubts
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
ordinary person; unenlightened person
stand; rack; support; holder; counter for machines, incl. vehicles; setting (e.g. in jewellery); level (e.g. price level)
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
treacherous; dangerous; untrustworthy; sneaky; cunning
related to; in relation to; as far as ... is concerned
sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)
sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
flute mouthpiece; poetic style
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
failure; mistake; blunder
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to expose (to the sun, public, danger, etc.); to bleach; to refine; to rinse (vegetables); to soak; to doxx
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
impudence; audacity; shamelessness; effrontery
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
when it becomes; when it comes to
reputation; respectability; honour; honor
one's own child; one's own children
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on