secret ceremony; ritual; sanctum sanctorum
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
deadly serious; deadly earnest
to be flabbergasted; to be dumbfounded
your husband; her husband
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated
to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip
sad; wretched; deplorable
to apply pressure from above; to press down; to overwhelm; to overpower; to repress
swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly
anonymous report; (secret) information; tip-off; informing (against)
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
intelligence gathering; information gathering
assertion; declaration; affirmation
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)
to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate
smuggling; bootlegging; illicit trade
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
pledge; vow; (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse; destiny; fate
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
public morals; discipline; rules governing social behavior
obscene; indecent; lewd; bawdy; loose; improper
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
firm; determined; resolute; conclusive
obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
sex; sexual intercourse; (one's) sex; gender
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique
expression; presentation; representation; notation
to increase; to add to; to augment
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)