whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering
holding two or more positions concurrently
support; backing; patronage
to feel guilty; to suffer from a guilty conscience; to feel uneasy; to have qualms about; to have scruples about; to feel regret
rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom
concreteness; feasibility
to volunteer; to undertake a challenge
pouring one's energy into; focusing one's efforts on; concentrating on; committing oneself to
order (esp. to a number of people); command; ritual of bowing at start and end of school class
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
digital versatile disc; DVD
one's share; one's portion
used; second-hand; old; Middle Ages (in Japan esp. Heian period)
qipao; cheongsam; mandarin dress
private tutor; coach; governess
recollection; calling to mind
transcendence; excellence; superiority
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
traveller's journal; traveler's journal; travelogue
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
to investigate thoroughly; to examine closely; to probe into; to be obsessed with a thought; to brood over; to worry about
finding oneself; self-discovery; journey of self-discovery; search for self
picking up; someone who picks up things; type picking (letterpress printing); walking (of an aristocrat)
to entrust; to leave to a person
to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
price increase; rise in price
somehow; in some way; for some reason; faintly; vaguely
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
twenty-fifth day of the month; twenty-five days
acting as agent; acting on (someone's) behalf; executing business for
joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party
making the numbers balance; fixing the numbers; number-juggling; making up the numbers (e.g. to form a majority)
twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
twenty-seventh day of the month; twenty-seven days