to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
undulation; ups and downs; highs and lows
to glance at; to look at; to scan; to run one's eyes over
to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
muteness; speech impairment; mute; deaf-mute
air of luxury; high class feel
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
(food that meets one's) taste; treatment
yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking; No Smoking!; Smoking Prohibited!
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
tide; current; tendency; trend
to spread; to be propagated
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
countries all over the world; all the countries of the world
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
absolutely no smoking; complete smoking ban; total ban on smoking
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
field; sphere; realm; division; branch
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
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate
completely; entirely; all; in large amounts; a lot