witnessing; observing; sighting
several people; some people; a few people; a number of people
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
munching; crunching; scratching (an itch)
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up
in succession; one by one
purple smoke; tobacco smoke
to sell wholesale; to grate (e.g. vegetables); to cut up fish
shabby; mean; sorry; dingy
to be noticeable; to notice; to catch one's eye
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
resignation; acceptance; consolation
childish; child-like; immature; infantile
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
pleasant; delightful; enjoyable; joyful; cheerful; amusing
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
making a prayer (to a god or Buddha)
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
to take back; to regain; to get back; to recover
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous
good feeling; feeling good
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
very young; little; childish; immature
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
(doing) various things; (doing) this and that; being apt to; being prone to; at any rate; anyhow
to look down on; to make light of
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry