interruption; suspension; break
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
day after day; day by day
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
until now; so far; up to the present
school rules; school regulations
violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)
to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
to put on clothes; to wear clothes; to be the personification of
to pierce through; to break through
strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a stickler for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules
cannot suppress one's anger; cannot stomach
exemplar; model; example; pattern
observance (of laws, rules, etc.); adherence; obeying; following; abiding by; compliance
ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly
to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
pecking order; hierarchical relationship; vertical relationship; hyponymy
order; observance; discipline; rules; law; regulations
embodiment; manifestation; materialization; materialisation; expression; indication
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to interfere (with); to hinder; to be hindered (from doing); to become impeded; to have difficulty; to suffer inconvenience
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of