beautiful spring; fine spring day
high-rise building; tower block; skyscraper
Halcion (brand of sleep medication)
sleeping pill; sleep medication
war; fighting; fierce competition
free (of charge); gratuitous
with a creak; with a squeak; (packing) tightly; with a squeeze; relentlessly (criticize, complain, etc.); severely
(coil) spring; spring (season); light overcoat (worn in spring and autumn); topcoat
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something
account book; register; ledger
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase
direct talks; direct negotiations; talking to someone in person
everyday life; daily life
people; men and women; each person; everybody
to forbid; to ban; to prohibit; to suppress (a feeling, laughter, etc.); to hold back (e.g. tears)
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
to discuss; to talk together
relatively cheap; relatively inexpensive; on the cheap side; lowish (price)
to rebuild; to reconstruct
strategy meeting; council of war
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
et cetera; etc.; and the like; the likes of; something like
wife; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); trimmings; accompaniment; side (remark)
average per-customer spending; average sales per customer
at any rate; in any case; anyway; anyhow
to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high
conviction; belief; confidence
wooden doll; wooden figure; puppet; blockhead; good-for-nothing
as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated