art of war; strategy; tactics
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
luckily; blessedly; fortunately
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
when it comes to; concerning (an area of expertise)
self-esteem; self-respect; self-importance; conceit; pride
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
making one's way through life; conduct of one's life
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
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.)
now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
to calculate; to compute; to deduce; to infer; to conclude
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
than; from; out of; except; but; more
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
interval; break; pause; gap (e.g. in the clouds); rift; cleft
cool breeze; refreshing breeze
war; battle; match; game; competition
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique
invisibly; secretly; privately
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp
toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus)
toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus)
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
to creep; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed