being too late; losing one's final chance
national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive
about the middle (of an era); middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate)
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
kilo-; 1000; kilogram; kilogramme; kilometre; kilometer
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
heavenly body; celestial body; astronomical object
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
to collect; to assemble; to gather
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
people; men and women; each person; everybody
from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely
to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of
poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
to be needed; to be wanted
labor; labour; exertion; diligent service
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all
rather; better; instead; if anything
last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier
to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time
final destination; last stop; end; conclusion; goal