mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house; snow hut
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
height of summer; hottest part of summer
air con; air conditioner; air conditioning
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
any moment now; any minute now; as soon as possible; right away
even more; still more; further
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to feel awkward; to feel ashamed; to feel inferior; to feel shy (about doing something)
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
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
two (long cylindrical things)
button (clothing); push-button
to push; to press; to apply pressure from above; to press down; to stamp (i.e. a passport); to apply a seal; to affix (e.g. gold leaf)
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
peanut (Arachis hypogaea); groundnut
largish; biggish; a little bit larger
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
operation (of machine); operating; running; working
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
one thin flat object; one sheet