companion; partner; spouse
Little Kyoto; small town with historical features reminiscent of Kyoto
valley; ravine; glen; gorge
friendly; openhearted; sociable; amiable; good-humored; good-humoured
hard struggle; strenuous effort
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
food shortage; food scarcity; difficulty of obtaining food
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
matter for the court; (ending up as a) lawsuit; legal tussle; court fight
affidavit; deposition; testimony
starvation; famine; hunger
looking on; remaining a spectator
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
one's later years; final years (in life)
to give one's heart to; to fall in love; to turn one's mind towards; to think of
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
to love; to be attached to; to cherish; to caress
to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
ban; prohibition; interdiction; injunction
(wrestling) ring; forum (e.g. for discussion); sandbag; gabion
spreading around (news, etc.); talking about widely; noising about; circulating
prejudice; bias; distorted view
firmly rooted; deep-seated
an eye for people; the ability to judge character
world; society; people; the public
windy; windswept; receive harsh treatment
(navigable) canal; waterway
cooperation; collaboration
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
suitable; appropriate; becoming; fitting
leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone
anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means
to jar; to creak; to grate
you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends
with the exception of; excepting; excluding