career; occupation; personal history; professional experience; government employee who has passed the highest national civil service exam; carrier; carrier (of a disease-causing agent)
work; business; company; study
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation
understanding completely; understanding all there is to know
lip-syncing; lip-synching
to drag on; to be delayed
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
three persons; three parties
unperceived; unnoticed; unnoted; out-of-the-way; out of sight; inconspicuous
being in one's room (office, etc.)
to be exposed to wind; to (go out to) get some air
context (of a passage); line of thought; context (of a matter, event, etc.); circumstances; background
what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about
putting together (e.g. opinions); gathering; collecting; aggregating; summarizing; integrating
beyond one's control; nothing one can do
to give up on; to turn one's back on; to abandon; to forsake; to desert; to leave
priority; order of precedence
guilty conscience; feelings of remorse
being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook
obstinate person; stubbornness; pigheadedness; hard head (like a rock)
middle finger; long finger; second finger; middle toe; third toe
genius; prodigy; natural gift
standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing
lower grades of primary school (first, second, and sometimes third grades)
promotion; raising of status
unconsciously; without knowing it; unwittingly; unawares
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)
leaving everything up to someone else
to have to pay the price (for past mistakes); to have one's past catching up with one; to have the bill come due (for past actions)
quarrel; fight; trouble; dispute; friction; discord
arbitration; intercession; mediation
reason; circumstances; grounds; because of; due to; as a result of
ringing; throbbing violently
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
according to; by (means of); due to; because of
freezing; turning into ice; freezing; locking up; freezing (in one's tracks); frieze (part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice)
whether one likes it or not; whether willing or not; willy-nilly
to meet up (as arranged); to rendezvous; to get together; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
head office; main office; main shrine; this company; this shrine
key to a solution; first step toward a solution; thread to unravel a mystery