playing doctor; children examining each other's genitals (often as a role play)
scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market
street at night; making a night journey
to be wet; to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
weak; feeble; delicate; frail; helpless
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
selection; choice; option
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
bow-wow; woof; wah-wah; bawling; clamouring; clamoring
to act up (machine); to go out of tune (instrument); to not work right; to be knocked off stride; to lose one's bearings; to lose one's presence of mind
cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed
insensitive; inconsiderate; callous; thick-skinned
to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
according to plan; as planned; on target
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
human relations; personal relationships
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
reasonableness (esp. of children); obedience
that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!
to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back
to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
self-satisfied look; triumphant look; smug face; shit-eating grin
to talk; to chat; to chatter
familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language
formation; molding; making up; repair (e.g. plastic surgery); replacement; -plasty
production (e.g. play); direction
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing