to hesitate; to hold back; to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
to (an extent); up to; doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; even if ...
katsudon; pork cutlet served on top of a bowl of rice
shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs)
attending physician; physician in charge; (one's) family doctor
good-for-nothing; worthless
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
(in spite of) being old enough to know better
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 give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise
service industry; service sector
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy
service; help; discount; discounted item; free service; freebie; service
milk; breast; loop; decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
results; record; grades; marks
ongoing; in progress; afoot
still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
something; some kind of; for some reason
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
to have medicine be effective
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
evaporation; dehydration; desiccation
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university