to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
permission; approval; authorization; license
father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
time for ...; time to ...; good time to ...; opportunity to ...; season
detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
impure; adulterated; foul; mixed; dishonest
so-so; passable; now, now; there, there; my, my; oh my!
teacher; instructor; professor
Sparta (ancient Greek city-state); hard education; hard training; strict; severe
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (minor penalty in judo)
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
with a friendly grin; smilingly
willingly; voluntarily; of one's own accord
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; with a bob of the head
(place) out of sight; (somewhere) out of eyeshot
to abbreviate; to abridge; to omit; to leave out; to take; to capture
high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
disrespect; irreverence; impiety; blasphemy; profanity
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
neglecting; ignoring; paying no attention to; superior to (e.g. a professional); outdoing; outshining
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
OK; okay; fine (without); not needed; unnecessary
monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision
customer relations; serving (helping, attending to, waiting on) customers
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
ordinary citizen; the general public
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen); scolding or threatening with a shout
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)