difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
fresco; mural; wall painting
posterity; future life; life to come
to take a long hard look at; to look (someone) full in the face
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
superstition; superstitious belief
plus; addition; positive number; gain; advantage; anode
incremental; step-by-step; gradual; stepwise
nap room (in an office, fire station, etc.)
stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
eternity; perpetuity; permanence
modern person; people of today
resurrection (of a company or school, etc.)
half-hearted reply; vague answer; reluctant answer
special training; intensive training; crash course
to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
interest; eagerness; enthusiasm
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
to finish up; to complete; to finish off; to get through; to polish off
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
switching over to; migration; transition
look who's talking; I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?
guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.); (feeling) uneasy
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
(not) even once; (not) ever
crying loudly; bawling; wailing; crying one's eyes out (without making noise); breaking into a flood of tears; crying buckets