striking with the back of the sword
swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); younger man involved with an older woman; boy toy
unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled
pole on which to hang laundry for drying; clothesline
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
one eye; one of one's eyes
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
to be overawed; to be overpowered; to lose the mental battle
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
quite; utterly; (not) at all; completely; wholly; entirely
to rush over; to run up to
lying face down; lying on one's face; placing upside down; placing face down
(wet) cough; (sound of) coughing
to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
third stage; three stages
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
godan (verb, verb conjugation); fifth rank (in martial arts, go, etc.)
thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)
in an instant; in a moment; immediately; suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once
left breast; left side of the chest
exposure; laying bare; baring (e.g. skin); (photographic) exposure
to be able to tell apart; to distinguish; to recognize
thaw; defrosting; decompression (e.g. of a file); unpacking; extracting
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible
injured person; wounded person; casualty
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
quarrel; fight; trouble; dispute; friction; discord
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
talking in delirium; incoherent muttering
high efficiency; high performance
to buy up; to lay in a stock; to stock up; to buy a lot
sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor
to narrowly escape (e.g. death); to hang onto (life); (arch.) to ascertain; (arch.) to make definite
regrettable; disappointing; precious; dear; too good for; deserving better
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)