interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview
bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; tether; fetters
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut
but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess
to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
soccer club (at a school); football club
national polity; National Athletic Meet
to make (tea, coffee, etc.); to brew a beverage (with hot water)
to be on track; to be going to plan; to enter orbit
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
fanfare; flourish of trumpets
to be frank with you; to tell you the truth; I'm going to lay my cards on the table
to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)
explosive; sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid
to roar; to reverberate; to be well-known; to be famous; to palpitate; to throb
grandfather; male senior-citizen
to follow someone's last wishes; to fulfil a dying wish
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
believable; credible; trustworthy
pig farm; hog farm; piggery
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
enthusiast; mania; enthusiasm
to gouge; to hollow out; to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain; to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light
being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein
pointing up; pointing upward; upturn; uptrend; upward tendency
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
to stop; to abort; to discontinue; to close
ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to lay the blame on; to put the fault on
(not) by any means; (not) for anything; wouldn't do for anything; had enough; flatly refusing
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
this occasion; at this time; now
jostling; milling about; crush; packed with (activities, products, etc.); teeming with; chock-full of
death from explosion; death from bombing; bombing (in sales); flopping