worn-out; shabby; seedy; wrinkled-up; threadbare
striking; remarkable; considerable
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
to comb down; to smooth down
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
to come off; to slip down; to slip off
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
to stand on end; to bristle up; to be ruffled
atrocious; fiendish; brutal; villainous
to lose sight of (one's companions); to stray from; to miss (one's chance to ...)
money to see one over the New Year period
to make up (a deficiency); to supplement; to add to; to put towards
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
extempore; impromptu; improvised; ad-lib; off-the-cuff; instant
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
police box; koban; alternation; alternating (current, stress, etc.)
footpath; walkway; sidewalk
to encamp; to take up positions
thick growth of plants; plantation; shrubbery; thicket
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
enclosure; fence; storage (of fruit, vegetables, etc.); partitioned area of a room for conducting tea ceremonies; mistress; castle
beforehand; in advance; previously
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to feel sorry (for, that); to regret (that); to feel pity; to sympathize
to call in; to invite; to bring in
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
to shine; to glow; to look attractive; to look nice; to be set off (by)