link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging
lowly people (Edo period); eta
Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
car; automobile; vehicle; wheel
congestion (e.g. traffic); delay; stagnation
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
to pin down; to immobilize; to immobilise; to control; to suppress
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure
river; stream; River; the ... river
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee
diving; submerging; going underwater
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
(criminal) investigation headquarters
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
to jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
generation of heat; (attack of) fever; pyrexia
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
speaking of; (I told you) already; come on
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
appearance; (outward) looks; exterior appearance
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect