old couple; elderly couple
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
your husband; her husband
magician; wizard; sorcerer; witch
to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
to stifle a smile, yawn, etc.; to bite to death
in the early period (of something); at the beginning
entrance examination for selected candidates (who have been recommended to the university)
school centred on preparing students to get into university; high-level school a person has entered
unable to concentrate on (due to distractions, etc.)
sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
failure is the mother of success
entrance examination (for a transfer student)
to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join
happy memory; sweet memory
expressing one's mind; speaking out
disappointment; despair; despondency; broken heart; adversity
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
on the occasion of; at the time of
deadly serious; deadly earnest
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive
to become completely chilled
apathy; lassitude; lethargy; languor
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
consideration; taking into account
to turn over; to turn upside down; to knock over; to tip over; to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset
to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up
cannot handle (it) any longer; fed up with; enough is enough
sudden impulse; passing fancy
to win over; to win (someone's) heart and mind
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear