childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
question; inquiry; enquiry
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
to be reminded of; to call to mind
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
to bend one's head slightly to one side; to look slightly doubtful
while; during; while; although; all; both
one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning
negligent; neglectful; careless; remiss
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to loosen up (e.g. tension)
to break (into pieces); to be broken; to collapse; to crumble; to become less formal; to throw off reserve
coincident with; while; simultaneously
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade