sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup (in sports)
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
soundproofing; sound insulation
destruction; annihilation; devastation; catastrophe
to refer to; to use as reference
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
nature; property; disposition
rate; ratio; comparatively; contrary to expectations
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
mob; the masses; rabble; riffraff
it's none of your business; it's not your concern
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
fixed phrase; canned phrase; standard wording; template; boilerplate
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
cup (drinking vessel, measure, brassiere, prize, etc.)
to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)
ex post facto report; report after the event
to interfere; to butt in; to interrupt someone
change; transition; vicissitudes
supernatural (e.g. psychic phenomena and such); paranormal
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; known as; so to speak
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
manual or physical labor; manual or physical labour
since one was born; (in) all one's life
present continuous tense; present progressive form
leader; pioneer; guide; leader (in Shugendō)
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to trample underfoot; to tread on; to crush with a foot
to run up (a hill, stairs etc.); to dash up; to rush up