to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
light; faint; pale; fleeting
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence
powder snow; powdery snow
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
reflection; reverberation; reflex; reflexes
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
to be dark; to be dull; to be unassuming; to be inconspicuous; to not stand out
dark gray; dark grey; donjiki (clerical dress)
plain; unaffected; natural; unpretentious; frank; candid
handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features); decent; proper; correct
mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound; yūgen
to wipe; to mop up; to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.); to dispel (e.g. shame); to erase
difficult to ...; hard to ...
physical weariness; sense of fatigue; washed-out feeling
whispering; subdued; murmuring; dry and tasteless
to catch (someone's words); to make out; to follow; to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.); to inquire
difficult to ...; hard to ...
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes
space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper); surface of paper; letter; writings
lack of expression; blank look (on one's face)
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
the other day; a few days ago
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
again; once more; a second time
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
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)
ten; 10; ten years of age
second (unit of time); arc second
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
such; like that; that sort of; very
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
please; somehow or other; one way or another
long slits (esp. of eyes)
to turn towards; to point