to go past; to pass; to pass by
smiling; beaming; radiant; bright; cheerful
dealing with (people, customers, complaints, etc.); receiving (callers, visitors, etc.); attending to; handling; serving
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
going out; one's best clothes; formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)
to be bewildered; to be perplexed
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
exceptional; unusual; special; especially; exceptionally; unusually
love of cleanliness; liking to keep things clean; tidiness (of people); neatness
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
company; corporation; workplace
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
tap-tap; knock-knock; cough-cough; bark (of a fox); yelp; heavily (e.g. of snow falling)
knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
financier (type of pastry)
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to finish reading; to read through
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
fullness; completion; enhancement; improvement; replenishment; repletion
particularly; only; in the case of
becoming irritated (suddenly); getting annoyed
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
waste of time; killing time