busy; hurried; confused; flurried
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
fields (of rice and other crops)
development project (program, programme, plan)
hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
maintenance; servicing; putting in place; establishment; development
dozens; scores of; decades
metre; meter; meter; gauge
repeated at intervals; every other (day, week, month, ...)
route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)
going home from work; on the way home from work
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
directly opposite; right in front
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
metal rod; metal bar; iron rod; iron club; iron staff with rings on top (traditionally used by night watchmen)
to rub; to chafe; to wear out; to become worn; to lose one's innocence; to become sly
iron rod; iron bar; iron club; horizontal bar (gymnastics)
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (somebody)
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily
starting (machine, engine, car, etc.); activation
hollow; cavity; dent; depression
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully
the three character styles: square and semicursive and grass
inexpert or untrained eyes
point in common; common term; common trait; common denominator
old friend; old acquaintance
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
assumption; supposition; hypothesis
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
to send out; to forward; to show (a person) out
desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech
telephone table; telephone stand
passing; (person) who happens to pass by; (place) that one happens to pass by; casual (e.g. romance); momentary