to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away
prototype; model; pattern; archetypal
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
unhurt; uninjured; flawless (e.g. gem); unblemished; spotless (e.g. reputation); faultless (e.g. performance)
for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
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deflation; contraction; shrinking; constriction
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by
to be awash with; to teem with; to be full of
to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
impossible; unlikely; improbable
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to grow weak; to become weak; to lose strength
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun); travelling female entertainer dressed as a nun (Kamakura, Muromachi periods); lowly prostitute dressed as a nun (Edo period); female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts
eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld)
underground spring; Hades; hell; underworld
other people's affairs; somebody else's problem
ornament; decorative object; object placed in a tokonoma; figurehead; leader without real power
to talk; to chat; to chatter