inspection; examination; survey
no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable
dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy
immediately; right away; at once; easily; readily
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
no matter what; whatever happens; in any situation; rain or shine
to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)
infant; baby; little child
sleeping like a log; (being) fast asleep (bombed, crashed)
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death
to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
to achieve; to win; to gain; to attain
lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
dance hall; dance floor; landing (stairs); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
quarrel; dispute; argument
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
expresses incredulousness, disbelief, irony, etc.
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth
glass sphere; glass bead; glass marble
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
dotage; feeble-minded old man; senile old fool; dotard
all night long; all through the night
house hunting; searching an entire house; searching a house thoroughly
handrail; railing; banister
to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
speaker; one who is skilled at speaking
(one's) skin colour; skin color; skin tone; flesh colour (of a Japanese person); flesh color; pale orange
to become greasy; to become oily; to be loud and garish
injustice; impropriety; unreasonableness; undeserved; unfair; invalid