middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
principal street; main street; major road; thoroughfare
news; word; tidings; omen
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
to fall completely silent; to become still as death
comparatively; relatively
wealth; riches; affluence; opulence
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
major dealer; wealthy merchant
hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
temple; sacred place; shrine; sanctuary; tabernacle
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy
parallelism; running parallel (to, with); running concurrently; occurring at the same time; not reaching an agreement (e.g. of a debate)
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
like this; in this way; as you see
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but
gaining total control (of people or counties); suppression; oppression; control; mastery; ascendancy
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
to perceive; to understand
to face on; to look out on to
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
to expose (to the sun, public, danger, etc.); to bleach; to refine; to rinse (vegetables); to soak; to doxx
(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all
escape; flight; breakout; fleeing; desertion
to make one's name well known; to gain much fame
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...