touching; moving; painful
effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
effect; result; worth; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
considerably; fairly; quite
hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
staying behind; remaining; residual
hot taste; sharp taste; pungent taste; salty taste
ignition; catching fire; firing (e.g. gun); discharging
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
throwing down; dropping; airdrop; investment
induced explosion; secondary explosion
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
to tan (i.e. suntan); to burn
already; now; no longer; not any more
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
breach of manners; breach of etiquette
stubbornness; obstinacy; disposition; nature; appetite; desire
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but
beautiful face; good looks; beauty
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
disgraceful behavior; disgraceful behaviour; shameful sight
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
to take a breath; to take a short rest
empirical; from experience
stomach; Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
pressure; oppression; suppression
comparatively; relatively; unexpectedly; unusually; considering; for one's ...
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
comparatively; relatively
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
to put into the mouth; to eat
crisp; crunchy; precise; clipped; brisk
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
standoffishly; primly; pungently (of a smell); acridly; long and pointed (e.g. of a nose); popping (of ears)