fire for luring fish at night
samurai receiving this much rice as a fee; offering of rice cake containing this much rice; person receiving this amount of money as a salary
amount of light; quantity of light
gondola (boat, esp. in Venice); gondola (hot-air balloon, airship, etc.); basket; scaffold (building); display shelf (shop)
vexed; irritated; fretful; shaggy; bushy; ragged
ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over
business; trade; operations; sales
ropeway; cableway; aerial lift; cable car
to put one's strength into
to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
full particulars; the whole story; from beginning to end
and they all lived happily ever after; having a happy ending; ending without incident
verbalizing; putting into words
mad (with grief, love, etc.); crazy; out of one's mind; on the verge of insanity
to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out
to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
sense of loss; feeling of loss
to ask a question; to ask questions
to pile up; to accumulate
riding together; sharing a car (taxi, etc.); doing in collaboration; backing of the same candidate by different political parties
smallest (in size, degree, etc.); least; minimum; minimal
restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization
determination; conviction
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front
one lump; one body; one group
quite absurd thing; something ridiculous that makes one laugh; extremely irritating thing
after all; in the end; when all's said and done; for the time being; at present
defence forces; defence corps
inhuman person; fiend; beast; brute
chance; stroke of luck; (curious) turn of events
to strip a person of all his or her clothes; to leave someone with nothing; to leave someone penniless; to steal someone blind
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
foolishness; silliness; stupidity; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
undeveloped country; third world country