to try and do something; to attempt to do something
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
questionable; doubtful; suspicious
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
to accompany; to follow; to keep up with
tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain
son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world
lesson; precept; teachings; moral
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect
to finish reading; to read through
to stay in one's heart; to be enduringly memorable; to be unforgettable
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
novel about one's education, spiritual growth, etc.; Bildungsroman
the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
selection; choice; option
the defensive; passive attitude; passivity; the passive; passive voice; ukemi (the art of falling safely)
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
unconsciously; unwittingly; unawares
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
especially; above all; inter alia; among others
more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
wastebasket; wastepaper basket
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
juvenile division (police); juvenile section
to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances