to rub; to chafe; to wear out; to become worn; to lose one's innocence; to become sly
three kinds of harmful friends: hypocritical, sycophantic, and glib-talking ones
early evening; dusk; lamp-lighting time; lighting-up time
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Calvin Klein (fashion designer)
three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones
Asama-Sanso incident (hostage crisis and police siege; February 1972)
(in China) 7th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G sharp); fifth lunar month
brief moment; twinkling of an eye; instant
Italian language (esp. as a school subject)
Japan and Spain; Japanese-Spanish
The Walking Dead (TV series)
Ghost in the Shell (film)
acceleration; progressive increase
Ikezawa Natsuki (1945.7-)
to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn