to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
to become decrepit; to become senile
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
once in a lifetime; once in one's life
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
bachelorhood; spinsterhood; celibacy; living apart from one's family; living alone; person who lives alone
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
8000; eight thousand; many
one-by-one; separately; in detail
wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!
dilettante; lecher; nymphomaniac
mole; lentigo; beauty spot
hollow at nape of the neck; (arch.) toddler's shaved hairstyle leaving a small portion at the nape (esp. Edo period)
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
(I) will; (I) shall; let's; (I) wonder (if); might it be (that); hey
woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
to feign ignorance; to evade one's responsibilities
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky
teaching the basics; initiation; introduction
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
ferry landing; point of departure or arrival for ferries
nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic
to stop (plug) one's ears
dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze
passions; sexual desire; lust
mountain villa; house in the mountains; mountain retreat
pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
if it is the case that ...
to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)