dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
major war; great war; world war
repeatedly; to a tremendous extent
(a feeling of) identification (with); sense of belonging
to be true to nature; to be lifelike
tunnel; to tunnel (through a potential barrier); letting a grounder go through one's legs
acquaintance; making someone's acquaintance
to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked
safe and secure; safe and worry-free
sunlight filtering through trees
humorous; funny; amusing; laughable; hilarious; comical
not having enough workers; being understaffed; being undermanned; having nothing one can do about something; having no options
not knowing what to do with the time one has on one's hand
can be; can exist; can stay; cannot help but ...
field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons
to undergo great hardships; to waste away from great effort and worry
manager; landlord; warden; root (user)
to combine parts of two different things into a new thing; to compromise; to balance out
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
to do everything in one's power; to do all one can; to leave nothing undone; to exhaust one's resources
agitation; stirring; whipping; beating
to have a certain mood or feeling; to have a hunch
to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective
now that; since; as long as; provided that
having many difficulties in store; grim prospects
simple and clear; plain and simple
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
division; section; demarcation; (traffic) lane; compartment; classification
pushing though; bulldozing; doing something by force; arm twisting
degree (of something); greatness or smallness (of something); quantity; number; amount; size
crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm
targeting; aiming at a specific target; selective hitting; swinging only at certain types of pitches; having no choice in a move (e.g. mahjong, go, etc.)
to open wide (doors, windows, etc.); to fling open
may I ask (for); might I ask (that)
to participate in (as a member); to get involved in
to dazzle one's eyes; to hold one's gaze; to fascinate; to captivate
bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic
How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
looking away; looking aside