noun:

• coping; top rail; cap piece; head board; what covers the top of a wall, torii or gate, not necessarily made of wood - Architecture term

noun:

• courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

expression / noun:

• beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn - idiom

expression / adjective:

• to pay no heed to; to not care about; to take no notice of ➜ 気に留める

noun / ~する noun:

• failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
• falling short of the standard; not making the grade

noun:

• child; children - archaism
• child servant; temple page
• my (young or child-like) wife - humble language
• young slacker (who has not yet attained adulthood)

expression:

• it is certain true that ... (but); you can't argue that it's not ... (but)

expression:

• condemn the offense, but not the offender; detest the sin, but weep for the sinner - proverb ➜ 罪を憎んで人を憎まず【つみをにくんでひとをにくまず】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not be harsh on someone (while awaiting a result); to give someone a chance

noun:

• original document (not a copy or adaptation); book in its original language (esp. a European language)

adverb:

• still some way to go before the goal; still more to come; much more; not yet

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to impose a gag order; to hush up; to order someone not to mention something

noun:

• coiled dragon; dragon coiled on the earth, which has not yet ascended to the sky

noun / ~の noun:

• high speed; rapidity

noun:

• rapid-service train (not as fast as express); rapid train - abbreviation ➜ 快速電車

expression:

• it's none of your business; it's not your concern

expression / adjective:

• have no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to ➜ 縁のない

noun:

• normal tire (i.e. not a winter tire, etc.); normal tyre; regular tyre

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be vague; to speak ambigously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself - idiom

expression:

• all pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain - idiom

adverb / adjectival noun:

• very; considerably; easily; readily; fairly; quite; highly; rather

adverb:

• by no means; not readily - with a verb in the negative

noun:

• middle; half-way point

~の noun:

• excellent; wonderful; very good

noun:

• (nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive
• proper place to die
• dilemma; predicament; inescapable situation

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

godan ~る verb:

• to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; seeing is believing; to have heard of is not to have seen - proverb

expression / noun:

• car accident for which one is not responsible; car accident where the other side is at fault