power outage; electricity outage; blackout; failure of electricity supply
society; public; community; social studies
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive
flesh-and-blood; human; warm; compassionate; (lit.) blood-circulating
to pick up; to find; to gather
universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant
content-free chat; idle gossip
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone
while; even though; despite
child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting
member of the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly
to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in
to be traced (of a criminal); to be tracked; (arch.) to have a (male) lover
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
perfunctory; cursory; passing; chance (e.g. customer); transient; stray
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
to pile up and up; to pile up more and more; to mount (e.g. debts, concerns)
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
filtration; filtering; percolation
(police) legwork; house-to-house inquiry; canvassing; investigation carried out by questioning neighbours, bystanders, etc.
crossing; intersection; (genetic) crossing over
appreciation (of art, music, poetry, etc.)
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
crossing swords; competing against; contending with; fighting against
stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes
dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle
inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)
assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor)
monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)
(face) mask; (facial) features; looks; mask (e.g. for circuit etching)
eyes; expression of the eyes; area around the eyes; skin round one's eyes
mouth; lips; shape of the mouth; near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable