floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
by (means of); by doing; due to; via; through
satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
to take out (e.g. garbage); to put out (e.g. dishes on table); to serve (e.g. meal); to get out (e.g. food from cupboard); to submit (e.g. ideas, opinions); to provide for
one by one; one after another; successively
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
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)
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
to the last; persistency; thoroughness
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
though; notwithstanding; although
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
ease of use; user-friendliness; usability; utility; convenience
diversion; appropriation (e.g. of funds); misappropriation; re-use (e.g. old computer parts); recycling
flour; meal; powder; dust
special; particular; peculiar; unique
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation
internal organs; intestines; viscera
as (for); for; in the capacity of
any more; any further; any better; any longer
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something