insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
straight; directly; voyage; journey; straight road
to force one's way; to push through
to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)
cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
rhythmically (beating, e.g. gong); clip-clopping (e.g. horse); crumbly; ambling; strolling; dozing
clear; obvious; evident; bright; light
kuma bamboo grass (Sasa veitchii); Veitch's bamboo
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
thicket; coppice; brushwood
lightly; gaping wide; suddenly; unexpectedly
to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
before oneself; in front of one; a bit before reaching (a location); this side (of a location); one's standpoint; one's appearance; skill
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
to talk; to chat; to chatter
vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
to make an appearance; to show up
(not so) much; (not) very
to take the initiative; to forestall; to beat to the punch
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
end (e.g. of a line); tail end; rear; backmost part
to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
dumbfounded; in mute amazement
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
posture; position; pose; attitude
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
to grow angry; to display one's anger
show; exhibition; spectacle
lineage; line; unification; all (of you)
to get angry; to lose one's temper
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
to crouch; to squat; to cower
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away