in the face of; in defiance of
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
economy; economics; finance; (one's) finances; being economical; economy
order; discipline; regularity; system; method
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)
appearance; arrival; make one's appearance
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
bright place; the light; the open; light of day; public knowledge
middle of the road; centrism; the middle (of what one is doing); half-way; middle way; middle path
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
setback; deadlock; standstill; impasse; miscarriage
no sleep or rest; working day and night
last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
1000 ri; (a) long distance
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
barrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
difficult; tough; formidable; redoubtable; stubborn
weight; heavyweight boxer
sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
quite clearly; quite distinctly; perfectly; exactly
beehive; hive; something full of holes; (fig.) Swiss cheese; honeycomb tripe; wall of a cow's second stomach
that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance
one large ...; a great ...
unparalleled; unparallelled; matchless
stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task
to go before; to precede; to forestall; to anticipate
construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation
locational advantage; advantageous position
to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death