railroad; railway; rail transport
commerce; trade; business
elaborate; delicate; exquisite
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
piece (in shogi, chess, etc.); (arch.) horse; (arch.) foal; bridge (of a violin, etc.)
to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder
check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base
to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)
to take along; to hold in the hand; to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to rush over; to run up to
very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy
to thrust away; to send flying
to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
to wither (of flowers, dreams, etc.); to wilt; to droop; to shrivel; to fade (away); to sag
to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt
every conceivable; every single; every possible; all kinds of
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
deficit; shortage; loss; being partially broken; being partially missing; being partially removed
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N
free ride (e.g. on train)
to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)
treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay
will; desire; ambition; urge (e.g. creative urge)
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something
disadvantage; drawback; demerit; bad point; minus
imprisonment; incarceration
context (of a passage); line of thought; context; environment; circumstances
to go out and away; to leave
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
connection; attachment; changing trains; conjunction