both sides; two sides; double-sided
shivering; feeling chilly; shuddering (with fear); feeling creepy; thrilled; excited
to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
precipice; cliff; flat head
direct unforked road; straight path
it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...
bodily sensation; sense; experience
though; even if; whether ... or ...
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
distance in a straight line
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
gorge; ravine; canyon; glen
invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)
consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion
counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation; reverse operation
impossible; unlikely; improbable
to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive
to meet the requirements; to satisfy the conditions
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
ascent; climbing; ascending (path); upbound (esp. toward Tokyo)
to get help; to enlist aid
to excel at; to be proficient at; to grow old; to ripen; to rise high (e.g. the sun)
diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
action of making something; -ification
new era; new period; new age; new epoch
firefight; gun battle; shoot-out
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
to make sacrifices for; to pay dearly for
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear