middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
reliable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising
by itself; automatically; naturally
to work hard; to work diligently
to store; to save up; to accumulate (e.g. knowledge); to build up (e.g. experience); to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.); to wear
lightning strike; thunderbolt; bolt of lightning; to strike (lightning); to be struck by lightning
mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing
pathetic; sad; sorrowful; grievous
wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood
circuitous; roundabout; indirect
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
dispersal; evacuation; removal; spreading out (troops); deployment
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
war situation; progress of a battle
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
to continue (going along some trend)
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
arrogance; haughtiness; conceitedness
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
to antagonize; to provoke antipathy
to attract interest; to arouse someone's interest
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
before one's eyes; under one's nose; immediate (e.g. interests); present; foresight; near future
guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion
to yield; to give in; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; (arch.) to feel down
people; citizens; subjects; folk
to freeze (of one's body); to be frozen; to become numb (with cold); to be chilled
intimacy; affection; familiarity
economic; financial; economical; thrifty; frugal
to escape from; to get out
trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation
easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over
speaking about (one's thoughts, memories, etc.); relating (one's feelings, reminiscences, etc.); recollection; reminiscence
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)