dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum
letter; missive; note; mail
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
letter breaking off with someone; Dear John letter
indeed; really; truly; very much
day after day; day in and day out; every single day
one's own style; self-taught manner
to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
jingle; jangle; chatty; nattering; coquettish; tawdry
to jaunt around; to play around; to visit one place after another without effect
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
even if not; even without
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
modern; current; contemporary; trendy; latest; up-to-date
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
main cause; primary factor
not only ... (but also); not just; as well as
to take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
frivolous; flippant; superficial; shallow; trifling; insincere
results; record; grades; marks
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
trusting too much; overestimating ability
(not so) much; (not) very
once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning
to stay at (e.g. hotel); to be docked; to be berthed; to be moored
retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
forwarding or transportation industry
proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
crop; harvest; income; profits; loaded (e.g. intermodal containers in the transport industry)
moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
to drift (to); to be washed ashore