to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)
firing; shooting; fire; gunshot; marksmanship
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness
to wear extra clothes; to dress formally
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
it is assuredly (that)...; can say with confidence that it is...
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
vital part (of the body); tender spot; key point; essential point; male crotch (as a target in fighting)
piece of meat; cut of meat
to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear
to fire a gun; to let off a gun; to loose off a shell
to spread; to be propagated
large; large-sized; large-scale; big
and yet; despite (all) that
credibility; authenticity; confidence; reliability
simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward; simple-minded; naive
structure; construction; makeup; framework; organization; pattern
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
due form; official; formality
Japan Self-Defense Forces; JSDF; self-defence force; self-defense force
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
thirtieth day of the month; thirty days
sense for (how to use) money; money sense
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
disassembly; dismantling; factorization; decomposition; resolution; deblocking
(coming to a) mutual understanding; understanding each other
simultaneous; concurrent; same time; synchronous; together