Vocabulary

if you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for; hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments

close-cropped hair; shaven head

obstacle

sabotage

saboteur

cap badge

to lose something

forgetful

memento (from a dead person); souvenir; keepsake

ingratitude; thanklessness

trance; ecstasy; enthusiasm

forgetting the hardships of the old year

bedroom activity (of a married couple); sexual intercourse

to dig up and expose (a secret, hidden crime, etc.)

to disclose; to divulge; to expose

to rampage; to run riot

to rage; to run amok; to tear around

to enter someone's territory by force

roughneck

to grow restive; to begin to act violently

restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse

excessive drinking and eating; overeating and overdrinking

young motorcycle-riding delinquents; bōsōzoku

tyranny; atrocity; brutality

sense of nostalgia

someone; unknown person

certain country

a certain person; unnamed person; Mr. So-and-so; a certain someone who shall remain unnamed

certain place

certain day

bar graph; bar chart

indiscriminate learning by heart

stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole

straight line

adventurer

adventure story; novel of adventure

spinning machine

spinning; spun cotton (wool)

spindle

spinning mill; cotton mill