to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
letter; missive; note; mail
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
memo book; memo pad; notebook; notepad; scratchpad; scratch pad
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; to make the initial charge
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
how about ...?; I wonder; I don't know
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)
to be surprised; to be astonished
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
another meeting; meeting again; reunion
to bring to a finish; to bind firmly; to superintend
conclusion; end; completion; summing up; supervision
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
right in the midst of; right at the height of
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
reality; actuality; hard fact
going to and fro; back and forth
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)