understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
isolation; being alone; being friendless
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
to start (something); to start up; to boot (a computer); to launch (a business)
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
by means of; due to; because of; according to
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it
bet; wager; stake; gamble
two persons; two people; pair; couple
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in