raging waves; stormy seas; hardships; troubles; adversities
to climb over; to get over; to overcome (a difficulty, obstacle, etc.); to surmount; to surpass (a predecessor); to overtake
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o
two persons; two people; pair; couple
nothing special; no big deal; doesn't matter; nothing to worry about
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
spirit; heart; disposition
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
reception (desk); information desk; receptionist; receipt; acceptance
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
to call on someone; to call at a place; to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to say; to speak; to tell; to be called
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to become thin; to lose weight; to slim; to become impoverished (of soil); to become sterile; to become infertile
funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
(not) by any means; (not) for anything; wouldn't do for anything; had enough; flatly refusing
sincere; honest; faithful
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
tolerance; open-mindedness; forbearance; generosity; magnanimity
economic fortune; luck with money
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
then; well; so; well then
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
strokes in a Chinese character; stroke count of a Chinese character
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
one's later years; final years (in life)
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable