to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
study; learning; tutorial
story; tale; talk; discussion
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
all; entire; whole; altogether
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions
free speech; freedom of speech
expression; presentation; representation; notation
ten; 10; ten years of age
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
while; during; while; although; all; both
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
to push; to press; to apply pressure from above; to press down; to stamp (i.e. a passport); to apply a seal; to affix (e.g. gold leaf)
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
accompanying; travelling together; traveling together; same bank
change; transformation; innovation; Reformation
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
to have an eye on; to zero in on
fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)
at that time; in those days
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial