to feel inferior; to feel small
effect; efficacy; virtue; benefit
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
eggs; egg; (hen's) egg; (an expert) in the making; beginning; origin
brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)
fluent (in a language); flowing
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
to jump on someone's (verbal) mistake; to trip someone up; to find fault with something someone says
natural span of life; 250 years old
distant view; looking from a distance; good long distance vision; farsightedness
striking with the back of the sword
to draw the conclusion that ...; to conclude
using every trick (in the book)
to live; to make a living; to get on with
to be nearing death; to be dying
to create (a sensation); to give rise to (controversy)
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to be wet; to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
to put one's life on the line
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
a pair (of shoes or socks)
to make the impossible possible; to accomplish the impossible
to strike someone a blow; to bring down (a stick on someone's head)
iron hammer; (fig.) crushing blow
belief that where there's a will, there's a way
to knock down; to utterly defeat
to pass from one's lips; to escape one's lips
pressure; oppression; suppression
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
to become a (bad) habit; to get accustomed to
to scatter; to sprinkle; to spray; to lavish (money, charm, etc.)
boo! (sound used to scare someone); ugh (dissatisfaction, aggravation); ulp (consternation)
adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)