environment; circumstance
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
survival; remaining; being extant; being left
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
paying one's own expenses; going into business for oneself; working independently; person who earns their own living
stockpile; reserves; storing; stocking up; laying in (supplies)
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
inviolability; nonaggression; sacredness
at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being
conspiracy; collusion; complicity
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
shout of joy; cry of pleasure; jubilant comments
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
to be full; to wax (e.g. moon); to rise (e.g. tide); to mature; to expire
haughty; arrogant; pompous; self-important
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was
most part; greater part; majority
since then; from that time; ever since
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
repair; mending; fixing; servicing
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
casual; unconcerned; nonchalant
to be annoyed (by); to be offended (at); to be irritated (with)
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
old body; aged person; elderly person
mistress; kept woman; concubine
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful