unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled
pole on which to hang laundry for drying; clothesline
to cut down; to chop down; to fell
emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
undulation; ups and downs; highs and lows
rather; better; instead; if anything
one eye; one of one's eyes
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
to be overawed; to be overpowered; to lose the mental battle
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
quite; utterly; (not) at all; completely; wholly; entirely
to concern; to be related
to kill with a sword (knife, dagger, etc.); to slay; to put to the sword
to rush over; to run up to
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
thrust; stab; tsuki; thrust to the throat (in kendo); tsuki; thrust to the chest
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
sweeping sideways; mowing down
by sheer strength; by brute force
Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities
to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
third stage; three stages
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
godan (verb, verb conjugation); fifth rank (in martial arts, go, etc.)
thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
serious; severe; grave; acute
in an instant; in a moment; immediately; suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once
thaw; defrosting; decompression (e.g. of a file); unpacking; extracting
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
while; even though; despite
to some extent; to a certain extent
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...