surging waves; raging billows; turbulent; tempestuous; tumultuous
thunderous roar; roaring sound
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
to rain incessantly; to downpour
stillness; silence; hush; calm; serenity
dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful
calls and sounds made by insects
silence; stillness; quietness
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly
to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver
to lend someone one's shoulder; to support with one's shoulder; to lend a hand; to come to someone's aid
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream
to carry (a child) on one's back; to piggyback; (arch.) to take on (a job, responsibility, etc.)
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
not at all; don't worry about it; forget about it
jokingly; in the form of a joke
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)
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject
to rebuke; to scold harshly
riverbank; riverside; market on the riverbank (esp. fish market); place (for activities); venue
river surface; surface of a river
pebbles; gravel; boulder formed from gravel and sediment
dry riverbed; river beach
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
cavern; cave; cave system; grotto
half the body; half length
texture; grain; one's skin (lacking makeup, etc.); natural skin; surface of the earth; bare ground
sound of something making firm contact with a flat surface
24 hours; twenty-four hours
to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
other people's affairs; somebody else's problem