eagerness; enthusiasm; fervor; excitement; fighting spirit; fighting mood
homework; assignment; pending issue; unresolved problem; open question
in that manner; like that
staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)
recreation; diversion; relaxation
pretty girl who attracts customers to come inside a shop
what; so-and-so; such and such; what?; wait; well, well
love of; affection for; enthusiast for; being attractive to; being liked by
to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia
nonchalant air; unruffled air
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
new employee; freshman employee; new hire
once in a lifetime; once in one's life
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
riparian works; flood-control works
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain; range; spread; extent
weapon; arms; (lit.) shield and spear; fighting; war
latest; most recent; nearest (in time)
to find out; to discover; to locate
obstinate; stubborn; mulish; die-hard; bigoted
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about
one's own child; one's own children
in regard to; concerning (usu. of disputes)
to pair with; to pair up; to pair off