rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
to lose (something); to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
with a vroom; with a sudden shaking
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants
other people's affairs; someone else's problem
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette
sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around
to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
inattention; absent-mindedness
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat; home page (of a website)
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
yourself; himself; herself
(some) more; even more; longer; further
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
to raise; to elevate; to move something (to a higher place); to put onto (e.g. a shelf); to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to raise (a wage); to show someone (into a room)
how; in what way; how about; questionable
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably
tedious; boring; being fed up with
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
sense of duty (obligation)
... is the reason; ... is my excuse