success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
expression; look; countenance; face
to have a talk; to tell a story
serious look (on one's face); straight face
(unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario); (lit.) 10000 to 1; (if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
lump-sum purchase; bulk purchase; group purchase
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
one day; (on) a certain day
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement
deadly serious; deadly earnest
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
to mistype; typographical error; typo
research thesis; treatise
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
anyhow; at all events; in any case; either way; anyway
no matter for; without regard to; whatever the ...
to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
immovable; motionless; firm; Acala (Wisdom King); Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
to hide; to keep to oneself
exhibiting; showing; putting on display; putting up for sale; entering (a work into a competition); submitting
earnest desire; eager hope; longing; yearning; hankering
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on
unique; matchless; unparalleled; unparallelled; never again