to darken; to get dark; to be clouded; to be hidden (behind clouds)
normal; usual; ordinary; everyday
endurance; perseverance; patience
massage (esp. anma, a traditional form of Japanese massage); masseur; masseuse; (arch.) blind person
degree; extent; (health) condition; state of health; adjustment; moderation; addition and subtraction
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
predicament; one's ground; one's position
as if; as it were; as though; right then; just then; at that moment
to drag into; to pull into; to lure inside; to win over; to entice into
open seam; seam that has come apart; tear
child one is expecting; child in one's womb
qualifications; requirements; capabilities
to put up with; to endure; to bear patiently
odds and ends; all; every
to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about
to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
to discuss; to talk together
conclusion; decision; end; settlement
to settle down (and deal with something); to concentrate all one's energy (on something); to settle oneself (in a place); to settle down (somewhere); to take a solid stance; to lower one's center of gravity (centre)
to become fraught with emotion
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper
to be struck with terror; to be terrified; to be scared to death
to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate
filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents
to be anxious or concerned about; to ponder (anxiously); to fear; to investigate; to consider; to plan
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
meeting; greeting; welcome
to recognize by sound (recognise); to identify by sound; to understand; to be reasonable
briskly with small steps; trotting
husband; groom; (one's) son-in-law
tummy; tumtum; bang-bang; pop-pop; without reservation; unreservedly
neither this nor that; being at a loss; humming and hawing; shilly-shallying
eight; eight years of age; two o'clock (old time system)
completely; fully; entirely
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
stubbornness; pigheaded person; miser
plentiful; abundant; definitely extant
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
does not seem; unlikely; improbable