keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills
to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive
to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to put an end to; to deliver the final blow; to be the best for A
really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit
lightning strike; thunderbolt; bolt of lightning; to strike (lightning); to be struck by lightning
to knead again; to rework; to revise; to polish
bottomless; unlimited; immeasurable; inexhaustible
not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover
astounding; tremendous; crazy; exorbitant
to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind
not at all; don't worry about it; forget about it
of great promise; with a promising future
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
whirlwind; sensation; commotion; hullabaloo
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
good feeling; good will; favourable impression; favorable impression
to decide (e.g. an outcome); to dictate; to determine
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold
revised plan; revised draft
to make oneself available (free)
calm; composed; self-possessed; firm
passing shower; streaks of pouring rain
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
transient (symptom, phenomenon); temporary; passing; fleeting
to cover up the sky (e.g. smoke)
forced march; (fig.) doing something on a very strict schedule
doing (with resolve); carrying out (e.g. a plan)
to be extremely difficult; to present a major challenge
too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at
how many months?; how long?
to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)
making light of; thinking little of; slighting; belittling; dismissing; contempt
opportunity to show one's abilities; time to show one's stuff; one's province
having gone too far to turn back
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
abstention; nonintervention; noninterference
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
heeding; paying attention; bearing in mind