expression:

• in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu); being imperturbable; immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)

expression:

• Where there is a will, there is a way

noun / ~する noun:

• heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom

noun:

• perpetual change caused by karma; vicissitudes of life; that which is made - Buddhism term

noun:

• life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened - four character idiom

noun:

• life in a dormitory; dormitory life

noun:

• person who is satisfied with his or her real (offline) life - from リアル+充実 - slang ➜ リアル・充実

adjective:

• seeming like an excuse; seeming like a justification; defensive; in an apologetic tone

noun:

• life; lifetime; career

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• for life; all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like

expression:

• a person's worth is assessed only when their coffin is sealed - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation ➜ 命をかける

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out - also has an archaic reading of かどいで
• starting a new life; starting life anew

expression:

• like chalk and cheese (superficially similar, but completely different) (the moon and a turtle shell are both round, but they are otherwise completely different); like day and night; like the difference between heaven and hell

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• a born fool is never cured; there is no medicine for fools [literal] - proverb

expression:

• knowing what is right and not doing it is a want of courage - proverb

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

noun:

• good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense - four character idiom

noun:

• period (of life) when one is enjoying more romantic attention than usual - colloquialism

expression:

• expresses shock at misbehaviour of a youngster; what must his parents be like?; I'd like to see his parents' faces [literal]

expression:

• poverty is a stranger to industry; diligence is the mother of good fortune - proverb

expression:

• when one door is shut, another is open; the world is as kind as it is cruel - proverb

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

noun / ~する noun:

• rehabilitation; remaking one's life; starting life anew
• rebirth; regeneration; reorganization; rebuilding; recovery; restoration; remaking
• coming back to life; revival; resuscitation