the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
stone paving; cobble paving; stone steps; check (pattern); pavé; rectangular dessert (usu. made from chocolate or several layers of sponge cake)
soon; before long; shortly; close (by); near; nearby
self-restraint; voluntary restraint; self-imposed control; self-discipline
explanation; commentary; exposition; elucidation
presence of other people; (in) public; (in) front of others
expressing one's feelings; communicating one's intention; declaration of intent
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
finishing blow; coup de grâce
relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly
to be at a loss; to be puzzled
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
much more; still more; single layer (or storey, etc.); (arch.) rather; (arch.) sooner
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
to insert; to put in; to thrust in; to plug in
to torment; to torture; to harass
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
word game; wordplay; playing with words
it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...
moment by moment; hour by hour
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
to prick up one's ears and listen; to listen attentively
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
turning over; flipping over; reply; response; marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese; lapel
collateral family; subsidiary line; affiliate; coset
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence
practice; practising; training; study