Vocabulary

long period (of time)

long-cherished dream

directly managed store (as opposed to a distributor)

rent; rental

rent; rental

rent; rental

to present; to offer

having a garden; with a garden

to die by drowning; to drown

to bedaub (with paint); to besmear; to paint heavily; to spread thickly

to collapse; to flop (onto)

winter crop

winter crop

Tokyo Stock Exchange

this company; this organization; this association

the same generation; coeval

along the road; along the way

to begin to read; to leaf through a book

to reject; to spurn; to turn down; to refuse

chairman of board of directors

managing director; president of a company (US)

executive vice-president

crummy; shabby; petty; lousy; puny; cheap

fixed-width (e.g. font)

fixed-width font; typewriter font; monospace font

to encloud; to make dim; to make dull; to tarnish; to obscure; to darken

fault-finding

a period of two days

from morning to evening; all day long

evening cicada (Tanna japonensis)

entering and leaving a hospital; admission and discharge

feverish

end of the fiscal year; end of the school year

to stick it out; to see it to the end

horse's back

to push aside; to overcome (e.g. difficulties); to reject

exhaust gas; exhaust fumes

to buy a replacement; to replace (with a new purchase)

to buy a large amount (of); to purchase (in large quantities); to buy in; to lay in (stock)

little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)