artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
with a clash; with a thud; unexpectedly (meeting someone); suddenly (ending); abruptly (coming to a halt)
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
to be filled with strength; to be filled with effort; to be enthusiastic about; to be tired (ironic)
to emit a voice; to emit a sound; to be able to speak
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
breaking off; snapping off
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
memory; sense; experience
one's world within; one's inner world
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
make no progress; remain unsettled
image; figure; figure; form; image
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of
thick; viscous; muddy; dirty (with oil, grease, etc.); to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.); to be murky
sludge; slime; dregs; hopeless situation; hell; despair
to twine around; to twist around; to coil around; to pester; to hassle
work; workmanship; craftsmanship; artifice; trick; device
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
cannot (do); it is impossible that...; it is (highly) unlikely that...
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to find out; to discover; to locate
work; business; company; study
ugly; unsightly; hideous; mean; repulsive; disgraceful
to be completely changed (for the worse); to be transformed