small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest
beach; seashore; captured pieces; captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack
(being moved) deeply; (feeling) profoundly; (going) straight to one's heart; going numb; stinging (pain)
doing something separately (from the group); going off on one's own
acting as a group; doing something together (in a group); collective action
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite
not knowing at all (that); without the slightest idea (that); completely unaware (that)
to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself
off the coast; offshore; out at sea
every year; yearly; annually
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
close; intimate; on good terms
within the country; inside the county; domestic; home; internal
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
company president; manager; director
your daughter; young woman
sensibilities of the common people; ordinary people's way of thinking; popular sentiment
to compare; to make a comparison (between); to compete (on); to measure (one's strength, ability, etc. against another's)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any
common people; ordinary people; masses
primly; with one's nose in the air; smugly
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
to understand each other well; to relate to; to strike a sympathetic chord
relatively quickly (esp. actions); quite suddenly (esp. wind, rain, etc.)
to run at full speed; to run and run; to try one's hardest
rising up (of smoke, clouds, etc.); towering; plump; chubby; welling up (of an emotion); boiling up
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current
heavy rain; torrential rainfall; downpour
to begin to rain; to begin to snow