lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
break room; lounge (e.g. in an onsen); resting room
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
armory; armoury; ordnance department
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
logistical support; combat service support
political and business circles; political and business establishment; politics and industry
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to set out; to set sail; to embark on (a new venture); to set out (to achieve something); to begin to ride; to lean forward
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold; inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
family precepts; family motto; rule of the home
now that; since; so long as; because
extent; scope; sphere; range; span
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)
quantity; amount; generosity; magnanimity; pramana; (in Indian philosophy) means by which one gains accurate and valid knowledge
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink
originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
professor; teaching; instruction
until now; so far; up to the present