to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
passing the baton (in a relay race); baton pass; baton handoff; passing the baton; handing over (a job, responsibility over something, etc.)
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
one who knows little often repeats it
to shout (in anger); to yell
tedious; boring; being fed up with
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
gurgling down; being sucked into; caving in suddenly
equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
to be separated; to be apart; to leave; to go away; to leave (a job, etc.); to quit
rather; sooner; preferably
all; entire; whole; altogether
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
ten; 10; ten years of age
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly
greatly energetic; ferocious; extreme; severe
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
mountain forest; forest on a mountain; montane forest; mountains and forest
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass