to wrap up (in); to roll up (in); to tuck (up)
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (the contents); to tell everything; to open one's heart; to reveal (a secret, the truth, etc.)
to choke; to be choked (by); to sob convulsively
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
complete ignorance (usu. in reference to feigning); lack of knowledge
to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through
to lend an ear to; to listen to
hope; wish; aspiration; (bright) prospects; expectation
sorry; apologetic; remorseful
receiving; getting; eating; drinking; please (give me; do for me)
heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
to distract oneself; to take one's mind off one's worries
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
to jump over; to leap over; to fly over; to fly across; to jump ahead (of someone); to skip over
to remember; to recall; to call to mind; to imagine; to picture in one's mind; to visualize
to resume breathing; to come around; to come back to life
800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
small-format paperback book; pocket paperback
buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books; tsundoku; books bought but not read
book; volume; this; present; main; head; real
king; king; king (chess piece)
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
in every nook and corner; from A to Z; from head to toe; from cover to cover
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to die down (storm, anger, conflict, etc.); to calm down; to be at peace; to be governed well; to subside (of pain, symptoms, etc.); to be alleviated