scholarly ability; scholarship; knowledge; literary ability
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
will not do; do not; does not
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
to shut out one's opponents; to stop the other side from scoring
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
violent explosion; bursting
sprouting; budding; crush (esp. on an imaginary character in manga, etc.); fascination; infatuation
touché; you've got me there
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up
straight; straightforward; direct; neat (e.g. spirits); black (e.g. tea, coffee); entering university directly from high school; fast ball
to be turned inside out; to betray; to double-cross; to break into falsetto; to crack into falsetto
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
disturbance; trouble; ups and downs
intention; aim; preference (for); orientation (towards a goal)
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics
parliamentarian; member of a congress
food and drink; eating and drinking
company president; manager; director
brand items; brand-name goods
manufacturer (esp. a major company); producer; maker; device for making things; person who creates things
inside and outside; interior and exterior; inside and outside the country; home and abroad; around; about
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
to look down on; to make light of
person who has rendered distinguished service
exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much; misstatement; slip of the tongue; gaffe
to stand in (someone's) place; to be in a (certain) position
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about