to wait eagerly for; to look forward to
sweat; perspiration; moisture; condensation; gulp; oops
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour
face with no make-up; unpainted face; true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.); real face; sober face; sobriety
one act (play, etc.); scene; event
to come to an end; to close the curtain
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)
divine possession; eccentric behavior; fanaticism
he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!
butting (in boxing); clashing (of schedules, etc.); conflict; colliding
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
deciding match; play-off; runoff
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
overhasty; rash; premature
to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be hasty; to be rash; to quicken; to speed up
comparatively; relatively
tendency; trend; inclination
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
to make time; to carve out some time (to do something)
dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour
close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny
to let something (or somebody) go past; to do too much
whispered conversation; whispering
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline; to get cocky; to be arrogant
thereupon; therefore; because of that
extremely troubled; very puzzled
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
forward; frontward; ahead; rectangular front
verbalizing; putting into words
children's hairstyle of short untied hair; child with short untied hair; young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period); (arch.) baldness; (arch.) bald head
(licensed) red light district