had better ...; had better not ...
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
worthless; insignificant; unimportant; poor; miserable; wretched
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
party (political); person who is fond of; fan of
completion; conclusion; perfect (tense, form, aspect)
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
trade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
with a patting motion; lightly (tapping); (sticking) fast; firmly; sloshing (liquid); swaying
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
there being no use in arguing (about it)
to throw; to toss; to hit; to strike; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles)
feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness
having done this; if this is done; if it is done in this way
axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to become desperate; to give in to despair
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
glittering; sparkling; glistening; twinkling
ball of a finger; finger cushion; pulp of the finger; pad of the finger
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
with a shiver (down one's spine); with a sudden chill
tensely; tightly; erectly; intuitively; instinctively; with a burst
to tower over the surroundings
to fail to be attentive to
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
to shake one's head (in denial)
in comparison to; rather than
unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous
tip of nose; before one's eyes; under one's nose; tip (of something)
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
hairy caterpillar; woolly bear; pest; nudnik (nudnick)
to smash up; to defeat crushingly
careful; scrupulous; thorough; conscientious; elaborate; deliberate
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)