roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
original story (as opposed to a sequel, spin-off, etc.); main story; this volume; the movie (as opposed to the trailers; at a movie theater); feature film (main item in a cinema program); movie based on a TV series
column (e.g. in newspaper); stand-alone feature article framed by a box
explanation; commentary; exposition; elucidation
to skip over (while reading); to skim
a few people; small number of people
greeting; a fine thing to say
to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many
counter for books; volume
series of biographies; lives
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
Major League Baseball; MLB
record high; all-time high
major leaguer; major league player
title of a musical composition; name of a piece of music; song title
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; leaving a passing ball for a teammate (in soccer); letting the ball go past
(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of
original (that was parodied or acted as an inspiration for something else, etc.); source
years gone by; earlier years; former years; the past
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
(one's) initials; first letter (of a name, sentence, etc.); initial; first
space; interval; space character; whitespace
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
lady (of high social status; e.g. scholar, artist, critic, politician); Ms; Mrs; Miss
Sparta (ancient Greek city-state); hard education; hard training; strict; severe
work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
wholeheartedly; with heart and soul; intently; with undivided attention; with intense concentration; single-mindedly
(archeological) remains; ruins; relics
to fall into ruin; to become dilapidated; to become run-down; to become desolate; to be badly neglected
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
to be tripped up; to be too drunk to stand
fall; falling down; inversion; reversal; getting upset; losing one's presence of mind
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize