was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
making one's best exertions
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to drag; to trail; to force (someone) along; to drag (along); to prolong; to drag out
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
to cry and beg for mercy; to apologize in tears
cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection
clear weather; fine weather; formal; ceremonial; cleared of suspicion
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
metre (unit of length); meter; meter; gauge
one round; one circuit; one revolution; one lap; one turn
above the clouds; heaven; the Imperial Court; something unreachable; place of out of reach
charge (of something); matter in one's charge; (one's) assignment; (one's) job
ability; performance; efficiency
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
given the situation; now that it has come to this; if it comes to this
naked eye; the physical eye
earth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land
endlessly; continuously; (going) on and on; meandering; winding; sinuous
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
(many) trees; every tree; all kinds of trees
marshland; wetland; swampland
to distinguish; to discern; to make out; to tell
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
evolution; evolution; becoming more advanced; progress
to talk to oneself; to mutter
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by
form; shape; figure; morph
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
of course; certainly; naturally
countermeasure; counter-measure
to think up; to think out; to knit (a pattern into a sweater, etc.); to start knitting
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth; itachi-gokko; Edo-period children's game in which two players alternately pinch the back of the other's hands and stack them on top of each other while saying "itachi-gokko, nezumi-gokko"
uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently