work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
even if; even though; however; no matter how
being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other
practice; practising; exercises; manoeuvres; seminar (student debates, presentations, etc.); practicum
joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector; (lit.) third sector
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
horizon (related to land)
base (military, expedition, etc.)
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
conference room; council room
keeping oneself awake; fighting off drowsiness; method for keeping oneself awake
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
falling into a doze; dozing off; nodding off
to start something; to have started something, but not yet finished it
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
lying down and getting up; waking; getting up; living (with); staying (with)
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
neighbourhood; neighborhood
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically