expression:

• prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling [literal] - proverb

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun:

• being dependent on what the weather is like - four character idiom

noun:

• younger second cousin

noun:

• one second

noun:

• as-is item; fixer-upper; item suitable for restoration - From English "restore base"

noun:

• place where a stationary fishing net is spread out ➜ 定置網

expression:

• This is the point we need to think about - idiom

noun:

• second law of thermodynamics - Physics term ➜ 熱力学の第二法則【ねつりきがくのだいにほうそく】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)

noun:

• most attractive feature of a person - From English "charm point"

noun / ~する noun:

• cut into long thin shavings (primarily vegetables), in the manner a pencil is sharpened with a knife

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

expression:

• enough is enough; no further!

expression / noun:

• second oil crisis (1979) ➜ オイルショック

expression:

• man is the measure of all things - proverb

expression:

• a meeting by chance is preordained - proverb ➜ 袖振り合うも他生の縁

expression:

• what is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb - proverb

expression:

• everything is preordained - proverb

expression:

• This world is uncertain (cruel) like a burning house - four character idiom

noun:

• second wind

noun:

• forced out on second

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to leave as it is; to defer

expression:

• speech is silver, silence is golden - proverb