to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
job; work; duties; trade; skill
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
intolerable; unbearable; tremendous; out of this world; cannot help (doing); cannot but do
upper half of the body; upper body
basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
what kind of; what sort of; what; how; in what way
fetish; passion; enthusiasm
disreputable; scandalous; disgraceful
briskly; quickly; promptly
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
stop bullshitting me; you're fucking kidding me; you're full of shit
real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)
to go to bed; to be sick in bed; to be laid up
walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent
life; vitality; verve; vigor; vigour; animation
now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now
rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)
to emphasize; to attach importance to
wholeheartedly; single-mindedly; earnestly; intently; determinedly
thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); crowded
to divide; to separate; to share; to distribute; to distinguish
brake; drag; skid; restraint; curtailment; self-imposed limit
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
eating with one's fingers; snitching food; snatched food; embezzlement; misappropriation; flirting
nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine
to feel like; to feel inclined to do
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
to sieve; to sift; to winnow; to screen (candidates)
distribution (of information, etc.); broadcast; delivery; transmission; streaming
way; course; the only way
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia