service road; frontage road
turning point; critical juncture; knot (in a tree, etc.)
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (endure); stoically
discovery; detection; finding
suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
to expose; to disclose; to lay bare; to confess
to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)
irritating; irritated; frustrating; vexing; (feeling things are) not quick enough; (feeling) too slow-going
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
sultry night; sweltering night; night in which temperature doesn't fall below 25 degrees C
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture
to keep talking; to go on and on; to talk non-stop
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
regular; ordinary (e.g. session of parliament); established usage; precedent; regular practice
very; much; greatly; a lot of
congestion (with blood); hyperemia; hyperaemia
absconding; taking oneself off; slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)
to be cut out for (e.g. a job); to be suited (to)
lack of sleep; insufficient sleep
with a thud; with a flop; with a plop; suddenly (stop, come to an end, etc.)
to collapse into; to flop onto
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
still; even now; to this day
to leave a trail; to leave traces; to have a lasting effect
sample; example; specimen; display model (e.g. plastic food models used by restaurants)
analysis; analytical study; parsing; parse
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
bad condition; not to work out (i.e. a deal); disagreement; break-off; disorder; slump