expression:

• a single mistake can ruin all one's hard work; one blunder can render useless a long period of effort; one fart in a hundred days' sermons [literal] - proverb

noun:

• young person; young servant; young man come of age (at 16) - archaism

noun:

• serving tea (esp. at a company); tea server; tea lady - polite language ➜ 茶汲み

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to touch; to come in contact with; to border on; to adjoin; to be adjacent; to be close
• to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to serve; to take care of; to look after; to deal with; to see
• to receive (news); to get; to hear
• to encounter; to come across
• to be tangent to - Mathematics term

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to make touch; to bring into contact with; to bring adjacent to; to bring close; to connect

expression:

• feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• two at a time; two by two; in twos

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to strip to one's waist
• to go at with might and main - idiom

proper noun:

• Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935) ➜ 忠犬ハチ公【ちゅうけんハチこう】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun:

• carriage beautifully decorated with gold, silver, gems, etc., for use by Heian era nobles at festivals and like activities

noun:

• ladies' day; promotional scheme where women are offered discounts on certain days (e.g. at cinemas) - From English

expression:

• in one's whole life; all one's life; since one's birth ➜ この方【このかた】

~の noun / noun:

• urgent; pressing; immediate; prompt; express

adverbial noun:

• urgently; promptly; at once; right away; without delay; as soon as possible

noun:

• kiss-and-ride; dropping a family member off at a station

adverb:

• even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is

noun:

• tub-thumping preacher; preacher (priest) who is good at delivering a sermon; pulpiteer (usually with contemptuous implication) - four character idiom

~の noun / noun:

• existing (at the present moment) ➜ 在る【ある】

adjectival noun / noun:

• alright; acceptable; passable - colloquialism

~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have ➜ 在る【ある】・在る【ある】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be so angry that one lashes out at unrelated things; to have an outburst of anger

noun:

• attending foreign language study at a school near the train station (esp. used as a NOVA catchphrase)

noun / ~の noun:

• near point (closest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye) ➜ 遠点【えんてん】
• periapsis - Astronomy term ➜ 遠点【えんてん】

noun:

• far point (farthest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye) ➜ 近点【きんてん】
• apoapsis - Astronomy term ➜ 近点【きんてん】

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 茅の輪

noun:

• Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on Oct. 22); Jidai Festival

noun:

• Festival of Zeus (held at Olympia every four years from 776 BCE to 393 BCE) ➜ オリンピック