to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
if one is unlucky; if one is careless
elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
audience; attendance; hearers
insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
to clear; to make clear; to be unruffled; to look unconcerned; to look demure; to look prim
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
nailing on; nailing down; being stationary; being rooted to the spot; (price) pegging
to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
low tone; bass; low voice
to become dim; to become blurred
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
repetition; iteration; recursion; recurrence; recapitulation
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract
live music or performance
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)
uneasy feeling; sense of anxiety; malaise
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
for a while; for some time; for a period
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord