brisk and efficient; diligent; devoted; spirited
wife who lives elsewhere but regularly visits her husband
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
to sleep all day; to idle away one's time; to loaf all day
with these words; while saying
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
roughly; approximately; (cutting) in one stroke; (breaking apart) with vigour; (cutting) deeply; (splitting) wide open
corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to; appropriate; suitable; to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
to be injured; to sustain a wound
large building; building with a long roof; counter for buildings, apartments, etc.
corridor; hallway; passageway
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to kick (at someone, something)
infancy; childish; infantile; immature
venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on
emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience
anything and everything; just about everything
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
violent emotion; passion; fury
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
self-consciousness; self-awareness
to collect oneself; to cool off; to recover oneself
should; must; -able; probably; likely
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize