irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
tall figure; high stature
beautiful woman; (a) beauty; belle; good-looker
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; I don't get it; I'm confused; I'm lost
interpretation; explanation; reading; construction
based on; on the basis of
light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale; faint (feeling, hope, etc.); fleeting; slight
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
(transplant) rejection; strong reaction (against)
liking for; taste for; fondness for; to the liking of; favored by; popular with
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
to like; to love; to be fond of
to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
somewhere; in some respects; in some way
kampō; traditional (herbal) medicine based on ancient Chinese medicine
(study of) pharmacy; pharmaceutics
speciality; specialty; special subject of study; sole interest; single focus; concentrating exclusively on
sewing together; stitching up (a wound); suture
major subject; special study
Japanese and Chinese poetry; poetry; poems
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
to enclose (with); to surround (with); to turn (one's head, heel, etc.); to rotate; to think over; to consider
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
trickery; (arch.) fiasco; (arch.) disobedience
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
to be attentive to small details; to be attentive to others (or others' concerns); to have one's mind turn groundlessly to something negative
to be unable to just watch (without doing anything); to be unable to look on in silence; to be unable to overlook; to be unable to remain indifferent to
to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; heedlessly; against one's better judgement (judgment)
disliking; hating; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
whirling; revolving; coiling around; winding around; working tirelessly; working hard
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
he; she; that person; (arch.) you