without; unless; have to do
to have an accident; to meet with an accident
skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness
alumni association; graduates' association; alumni meeting; class reunion
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured
meteor; shooting star; falling star
aspiration; volunteering; desire; application
in the same manner as before; the same as always
as you see; as you can see
to see; to look; to watch; to try to
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
evening; last night; yesterday evening
I; me; self-centered man; egotistical man; pompous man
belt (waist, seat, etc.); strap; belt; zone; drive belt; machine belt
metamorphosis; disguise; transformation; shapeshifting; morphing
to transcribe; to duplicate; to describe; to film; to picture
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening
bento; Japanese box lunch
understood; I see; OK; present; here
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
company president; manager; director
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
you (plural); all of you; you all
to take (a photo); to record (video, audio, etc.); to make (a film)
aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
sorry; excuse me; thank you
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
qualifications; requirements; capabilities