uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently
duty; function; office; mission; task
to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
kapow; bang; bulging; filled to bursting; prostitute (catering to Occupation soldiers in Japan after WWII)
to swell (from inflammation); to become swollen
to worry about; to be vexed
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
reaction; recoil; kick; backlash
sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass
body; physical system; (the) person
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
place; situation; position; location
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; breakfast (in Zen temples)
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
on hand; readily available
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
listless; languid; sluggish; irritating; exasperating; tiresome
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail