to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
making a swift decision; making immediate decisions and taking quick actions
to make it a principle to ...; to aim at doing
opening and shutting; opening and closing
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
to throw open; to leave open
to rush over; to run up to
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
one parent; single parent
blood relationship; blood relative
unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; death (usu. of a relative); bereavement
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
since one's birth; in one's whole life; all one's life
lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; greedy
self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)
aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to scream; to whine; to grumble; to complain
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to fall flat; to fall face down
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose
scream; shriek; shout; exclamation