modern times; the modern age; this day and age
verbal message; word (from someone)
to misjudge; to mistake; to misjudge (someone); to overestimate; to miss seeing; to overlook
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
father; dad; husband; you; he
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
chance; stroke of luck; (curious) turn of events
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
ikebana; Japanese art of flower arrangement
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
to begin (doing); to start (doing)
doing a job; riding and sweating up a horse
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
to ride up to; to drive up to; to get used to riding; to get used to driving
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
one yen; throughout (an area); whole district
to base something on; to make something the basis
steel tower; electricity pylon; transmission tower
useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
to help each other; to cooperate
after this; henceforth; henceforward; from now on
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
to inform; to notify; to know; to reign
hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors
to attend on; to wait on; to accompany; to escort; to chaperone
in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
to make trouble; to rock the boat; to make waves; to aggravate a situation
accompanying; travelling together; traveling together; same bank
grove of miscellaneous trees; copse; coppice; thicket
evacuation; emission (e.g. of CO2, etc.); ejection
thermoregulation (of the body)
with a shiver (down one's spine); with a sudden chill
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
to steal; to rob; to deceive; to trick; to graze (in passing); to skim; to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.)
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
going to and fro; back and forth