young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters
to talk; to chat; to chatter
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
diagnosis; medical examination
one's social position; one's place; one's standing
another meeting; meeting again; reunion
persistence; fortitude; indomitability
a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame)
to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up; to dampen
polite; courteous; hospitable
declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down; withdrawal (e.g. of candidacy); pulling out (e.g. of a race)
main force; chief object; mainline
a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone
at the critical moment; when the time comes; when it's most important; when necessary; in an emergency; when push comes to shove
in preparation (for); in case (of); in the lead-up (to)
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
out of the question; unthinkable; impossible
reinforcement; augmentation; strengthening; increase; buildup
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
to come and stay; to drop in; to visit
immovable; motionless; firm; Acala (Wisdom King); Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
very strong person; brave warrior; veteran
hand-to-hand fighting; grappling; scuffling
war; battle; match; game; competition
immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit); person not bound by earthly desires
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.)
direct control; direct supervision
Imperial Guard Division (pre-1945)
1,000,000; one million; million; many
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly