haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
taking a philosophic view; looking at the long term; farsightedness
joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
delineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
tip-top; top; top-drawer; best; foremost; elite
gear; cogwheel; cog (in an organization, company, etc.); cog in the machine
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable
hidden reserves of strength; latent energy; potentiality; real strength
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb
to take over; to hand over
annals; chronicle; chronology
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)
scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops
scroll; rolled book; scarf; muffler; sushi made rolled in nori seaweed with a core of filling
principal occupation; core business
trade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing
in terms of; from the point of view of
chief; main; principal; important
near; close by; within reach; familiar
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
to become rounded; to roll into a ball
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)