dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
family; members of a family
security; guarantee; collateral (e.g. mortgage)
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
marriage proposal; marriage talks
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
proposal; offer; request; application
what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...; none other than ...
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
large (amount of money); huge; hefty; expensive
to carry on one's back; to be burdened with; to take responsibility for; to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something); to be conceited
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
to find resolution; to be settled; to be collected; to be assembled; to be well arranged; to be in order
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)
well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth
to shake each other's hands; to shake hands with each other
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
formal marriage interview; marriage meeting
to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
one's heart's desire; one's dearest wish
to come true (of a wish, prayer, etc.); to be realized; to suit (e.g. a purpose); to meet (wishes, ideals, etc.); to match (implies competition); to rival
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on