at the very beginning of one's speech; immediately upon opening one's mouth (to speak); before anything else; first of all
spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful
shock (emotional); shock (physical); impact; crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; (circulatory) shock
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
to apologize (apologise); to refuse; to decline; to be unable to bear; to be defeated (by)
to stop crying; to cry oneself out
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
to long for; to yearn for; to hanker after; to be attracted by; to be drawn to; to aspire to
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
thanks; gratitude; appreciation; thankfulness
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
more than anything; above all else
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
leader; leaders; dotted line; reader (textbook); reader (i.e. a person who reads); microreader
(distant) future; future existence; world beyond the grave; future (tense)
only; merely; but; no more than
change; transformation; inversion
mediation; intercession; smoothing over
apathy; lassitude; lethargy; languor
one day; (on) a certain day
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; impulse
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)
to have a talk; to tell a story
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
together; jointly; at the same time; with; both
to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)