sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
another helping; second helping; seconds; command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
even so (expressing frustration, etc.); still
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
slightly; lightly; thinly; faintly; dimly
to rise to the surface; to surface; to stand out (e.g. against a background)
boy; son; baby boy; young man
to think (something) is improper; to question; to have a problem with
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
pot; (arch.) typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period; working at night; female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
passion; enthusiasm; zeal
sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
way; method; means; resource; course
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
that is to say; so that means
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)
affirmation; affirmative (logic)
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
recommendation; endorsement
not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
if it's going to be that way, then ...; if given the choice; if possible; if anything
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
to swell; to rise; to bulge; to rouse; to get excited
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene