love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
travel; trip; journey; excursion; tour
youth; springtime of life; adolescent
to work hard at one's lessons
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
large amount of money; great cost
one's (own) house; one's (own) home
to yearn for (someone, something); to miss
to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)
feeling of fullness; sense of sufficiency; feeling of satisfaction
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
top-heavy; big-headed; overly-theoretical
script; libretto; scenario
to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (a blunder); to disgrace oneself
drama; play; powerful drug
unimpressive; unimpressed
refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
communist bloc; Iron Curtain
work (film, book); production; creation; turning (something) out
feeling; sense; impression
lovely; wonderful; nice; great; fantastic; superb
complete; completion; perfection; accomplishment
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
(it was) not until; (it was) only when
human emotions (joy, anger, grief and pleasure)
in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
handrail; railing; banister
to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)
thick growth of plants; plantation; shrubbery; thicket
right under; directly below
dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)
to let something (or somebody) go past; to do too much
loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home
postponement; deferment; extension (of time)
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal