to be on track; to be going to plan; to enter orbit
to resemble; to look like; to be like; to be alike; to be similar; to take after
thick (esp. paper, cloth)
suspension (usu. vehicle)
average (normal, ordinary) year; every year; annually
returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline
to order; to command; to appoint
number of large objects such as cars, computers, etc.
hunting ground; hunting preserve
race (of people); type of person
isolation; being alone; being friendless
to be led by; to be headed by
noncommittal; equivocal; indecisive; evasive; ambiguous; vague
to exclude; to leave out (of conversations, etc.); to freeze out; to send to Coventry
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
(someone else's) daughter
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
stiff (atmosphere, manner, etc.); cold; unfriendly; thin and bony; scrawny
shy; diffident; retiring; reserved
three-way junction; three-way intersection
sending a ship to the bottom; sinking (a ship); to sink a ship
field in which one acts unchallenged; unrivaled sphere of activity (unrivalled); one's monopoly
konpeitō; small coloured sugar candy covered with tiny bulges
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
piece; fragment; one (object)
to dig up; to unearth; to uncover
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
to break through; to penetrate; to pierce
doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary