-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
collar; lapel; neckband; nape of the neck; scruff of the neck
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
increasing; uploading; posting (e.g. content); close-up; finishing shooting (of a film, etc.); upswept hairstyle; being up (i.e. leading in sports)
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
it's none of your business; it's not your concern
to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
idle thoughts; worldly thoughts
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
to shake off; to shake free from; to swing completely (bat, club, etc.); to take a full swing; to break off from (pursuer); to pull away
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
to stop (plug) one's ears
enough is enough; no further!
to feel uncomfortable; to be offended; to have a bad time
clear solution; clean decision
dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
to intrude; to butt in; to meddle; to be forward; to be self-assertive; to show off
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
lack of expression; blank look (on one's face)
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
alone; by oneself; on one's own
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate
(act of) masturbation; pleasuring oneself
to amuse oneself; to make merry
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
selection; choice; option
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now